882.01 Foreign Control/446: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Consul at Geneva (Gilbert)
1. For Reber. Your telegram 349, December 31, 11 a.m. from London. You may use your discretion as to whether or not it would be useful to discuss the situation with League and/or Committee officials, or furnish them with copies of the “law” and Mitchell’s letter to Barclay.
On December 30 Mitchell reported the receipt of a “note from Executive Mansion signed by Johnson one of Barclay’s secretaries” which was offensive in tone and endeavored to take issue with the statements contained in Mitchell’s letter. Mitchell has been instructed to have the clerk of the Legation return the communication and to inform the sender that the “American Minister declines to accept a communication of this nature.”