574.G1/873: Telegram

The Chairman of the American Delegation (Sykes) to the Secretary of State

21. (1) Delegation confidentially informed that Soviet delegates are planning to invite next combined conference to meet in Russia. Please instruct whether delegation should endeavor to prevent such invitation from being extended or accepted and what position it should take if invitation is extended.

(2) At the time of signature of convention should delegation make statement relative to unrecognized regimes similar to that made at London Safety of Life at Sea Conference?17

Sykes
  1. See instruction of March 28, 1929, to the American delegation, Foreign Relations, 1929, vol. i, p. 375.