793.94 Commission/32: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Consul at Geneva (Gilbert)
Washington, January 20, 1932—5
p.m.
18. Your 18, January 18, noon. General McCoy has asked me to transmit to you the following message:
The points raised relative League Commission of Inquiry on Manchurian situation are answered as follows:
- Paragraph 1. I request that you inform the President and Council of the League of Nations that I am honored to accept the invitation to serve on the Commission.
- Paragraph 3. You may inform the Commission at its opening meeting [Page 41] that I should be glad to serve under the Chairmanship of any of the European members, and that should Lord Lytton be proposed for Chairman and concurred in by the other members, I should like to make it unanimous and cast my vote accordingly.
- Paragraph 4. I shall appreciate your attending the opening session and apprising me of the proceedings.
- Paragraph 5. I am now a Major General on the active list of the Regular Army. While serving with the Commission I shall be on detached service.
Stimson