793.94 Commission/641: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Acting Chairman of the American Delegation to the General Disarmament Conference (Gibson)
50. Your 62, December 12. For Davis and Wilson. Saito’s report of his conversation with Castle is entirely misleading. The following is Castle’s memorandum of what was said, written immediately after the talk:
“Mr. Saito asked me whether we had yet received an invitation to participate in the work of the League Committee of Nineteen. I said we had not yet been invited, that we, of course, had had reports that such an invitation was possible. I told him that we had reached no decision in the matter because we should naturally have to see what the terms of reference might be and whether such a committee would work solely under the Covenant of the League of Nations. I said if the committee were one of conciliation, as is reported, I saw no reason why we might not be represented, but that we had not, as yet, reached any decision as to what we would do.”