793.94 Commission/377a: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Consul at Port Said (Remillard)
Please give to General Frank E. McCoy, presumably aboard S.S. Gange en route to Venice, the following: [Page 273]
Confidential for General McCoy from the Secretary of State. At present, it appears that the report of the League’s Commission on Manchuria will be made public on or shortly after October 4th and that the League intends to grant the request of the Japanese Government for 6 weeks’ delay thereafter before the report shall in any way be acted upon officially.
I feel that, if it could be arranged without embarrassment from point of view of political and administrative considerations and without inconvenience to yourself, it might be to the advantage of your Government and of assistance to me for you to be in Geneva during the next few weeks.
Could you conveniently proceed to Geneva there to confer with Hugh Wilson and Norman Davis and after having done that inform me in the light of the situation as you find it with regard to the feasibility of your remaining there for a while.
Please think this over and, at your earliest convenience, let me know whether you will go to Geneva and, if so, about when you will expect to arrive there.