500.A15A4 General Committee/389: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the American Delegate (Wilson)
335. For Norman Davis. Your 644 and 646 received this morning. I suggest the omission in your paragraph No. 33 [23] of the words “and make increasingly difficult common cooperation toward economic recovery”. I doubt the advisability of any emphasis being given even by implication to the thought that success in disarmament is a necessary prerequisite to success in the Economic Conference. The two conferences should be viewed as coordinate and equally important parts of the same world effort toward recovery but the success of neither should be viewed as contingent on the success of the other, lest the failure of one should unduly affect the favorable conclusion of the other.