500.A15A4 General Committee/239: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Chargé in France (Marriner)
53. Your 101, March 20, 5 p.m. You may tell the Prime Minister or the Foreign Office that Mr. Norman Davis is sailing tomorrow night on the SS Manhattan. He is planning to go first to London in response to a request from Mr. MacDonald, who wished to talk with him not only on disarmament but also on preparations for the Economic [Page 68] Conference. He then plans to go to Paris early in April and is looking forward to talking matters over with the French Government. You may add confidentially that he is taking with him no set plan or rigid solution for disarmament but will study the situation in the light of all recent developments, with a view to our exercising as helpful an influence as possible.