500.A15A4 Steering Committee/335: Telegram
The American Delegate (Wilson) to the Acting Secretary of State 88
[Received June 27—2:50 p.m.]
702. Supplementing my 701, June 27, 6 p.m., I had conversations during the morning and early afternoon with representatives of Japan, France, Italy, England and Germany as well as Henderson and others. I suggested the procedure outlined in my 700, June 23, 11 a.m., but I found all with whom I spoke, with the exception of Nadolny, definitely of the opinion that no further useful work could be done until private conversations had liquidated some of the outstanding questions.
I gained the impression from Nadolny that he would oppose bitterly an adjournment and had entered the Bureau with the idea of proposing a compromise by continuing the sittings of the Bureau to “prepare for the second reading” hoping that this compromise would give Nadolny some satisfaction. However, after having made his position clear Nadolny acquiesced so readily in Henderson’s proposal that because of this and because of the unanimous approbation of the Bureau it seemed undesirable to prolong the argument.
After the meeting Rheinbaben, one of the German delegates, remarked confidentially and personally to Mayer89 that in his views in the present state of Europe no decisions could be expected regarding disarmament at this time; that this adjournment was the only step which the Bureau could have taken and that it would not endanger a continuance of the work of the Conference.