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500.A15A4 Plenary Sessions/17: Telegram

The Acting Chairman of the American Delegation (Gibson) to the Secretary of State

Geneva, February 16, 1932—11 p.m.
[Received February 16—10:15 p.m.]

30. Reference Argentine proposal regarding contraband and free shipment of foodstuffs in my 29, February 16, 10 p.m. [midnight?].

I invite attention to the similarity between this proposal and the idea in the President’s speech regarding “food ships”42 and request guidance as to the delegation’s attitude in this connection.

Gibson
  1. Address of President Hoover at the Ceremonies on the Eleventh Anniversary of Armistice Day Under the Auspices of the American Legion, Washington Auditorium, Monday, November 11, 1929, at 8:30 p.m. (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1929), p. 5.↩