550.S1/1123: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Chairman of the American Delegation (Hull)
106. [From the President.] Your 104. Hope you will press for definite recess as short as possible if you cannot obtain continuation. [Page 695] A recess subject to call of chair will be regarded generally as complete failure and belief that Conference will never be reconvened.
As to more definite instructions, I am certain that if original agenda35 and original instructions36 are read together with my dispatches of July 3 and 4 you and delegation will have plenty to go ahead on. After all the world realizes that no complete discussion has as yet been had on the many topics in agenda. No one expected any completed program at outset of Conference and I think it important to obtain all views and all suggestions of all nations on each topic.
In other words the Conference through its committees should explore every suggestion, all those that were discussed in Washington this spring and others old or new from any other source before the Conference can be said to have performed the task for which it was called.
If you have any question as to any specific point on monetary or economic policies to suggest or to ask our point of view in Washington telephone me Thursday.37 (Signed) Roosevelt.