550.S1/1106: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Chairman of the American Delegation (Hull)25
104. For Hull and Delegation [from Roosevelt]. Your 99, July 4, 3 p.m. and 101, July 4, 9 p.m., I think our position should be opposed to any recess because Conference has not yet considered the overwhelming majority of the matters on its agenda.
If we are unable to prevent some form of recess our alternative position should be for a recess of 10 days or say till July 17 and it should distinctly be labelled a recess to allow committees to work.
An adjournment of 60 days is in my judgment a defeatist gesture and we should oppose it. We cannot in any way admit or agree that no progress can be made on economic problems until temporary exchange fluctuations are first settled.
The people and press here are united in praise of our stand and regard the French position as wholly selfish and ignoring utterly the big objectives of Conference.
Am back in White House. Roosevelt.
- This telegram bears the notation: “Above handed to Mr. Salmon by the President at 10:55 p.m., July 4, 1933.”↩