Foreign Relations of the United States, Diplomatic Papers, 1933, General, Volume I

500.A16/175: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the American Delegate (Wilson)

Washington, January 11, 1933—5 p.m.

276. Your 501, December 30, noon.⁶ The President sent a message to Congress yesterday⁷ urging the ratification of the traffic in arms convention and also proposing that the President be authorized, in his discretion, to limit or forbid, in cooperation with other producing nations, the shipment of arms and munitions of war to any foreign state when, in his judgment, such shipment might promote or encourage the employment of force in the course of a dispute or conflict between nations.

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Castle

6. Not printed.

7. Congressional Record, vol. 76, pt. 2, p. 1448.

   On January 18, 1933, the American delegate was informed that “there seems to be no likelihood that the Arms Traffic Convention will be considered by the Senate during the present session.” He was instructed to “make every effort to have provisions of the general nature of those contained in chapters I and II of that Convention incorporated in the General Disarmament Convention, or should more far reaching provisions be proposed, we are prepared to give them sympathetic consideration.” (Telegram No. 279, January 18, 2 p.m., to the American delegate, p. 4.)