793.94/4591: Telegram
The Minister in Switzerland (Wilson) to the Secretary of State
[Received March 5—10:40 a.m.]
55. Yen sent me a note during the session this morning to the effect that it would be helpful if the American Government would urge, at the various capitals, that the delegates of the separate nations be instructed to adopt a firm attitude in the Assembly on matters of principle.
Unless you feel that I should adopt a contrary course I propose to tell Yen that I am making your views very clear to such delegates as I consider useful here in Geneva, that the fact that I am doing this unofficially renders it no less effective and that such action as he proposed might cross wires and would surely be misinterpreted in view of our nonmembership in the League.52
- The Secretary of State replied to telegram No. 34, March 7, 8 p.m., “I approve the course proposed.”↩