793.94/3655: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Consul at Geneva (Gilbert)
32. Your 35, January 26, 4 p.m., paragraphs numbered 1 (c) and 4 and 5 and your 49, January 28, 7 p.m.,88 section 1, concluding paragraphs.
Supplementing instructions in Department’s 29, January 27, 6 p.m.
For your guidance, in connection with inquiries as to the attitude of the American Government on the subject of possible invoking of the Nine Power Treaty, you should not initiate any discussion of that question, but in case you should be called upon to answer a responsible inquiry, you may reply in confidence that your Government would without doubt view with satisfaction a declaration by the Council, or by Governments of any of the States represented thereon which are also parties to the Nine Power Treaty, in definite support of the position taken in the American Government’s identic notes of January 7.
- Latter not printed.↩