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500.A15A4 General Committee/154: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Acting Chairman of the American Delegation (Gibson)

Washington, February 2, 1933—6 p.m.

289. Your 523, February 2, 1 p.m. Statement17 approved.

This is in line with my hope that you can succeed, while maintaining our general position, in avoiding a controversial stand during the coming sessions of the Disarmament Conference. The general international situation with respect to debts, the Far East and Latin America is so tense at the moment that I wish if possible to avoid its further complication by unduly active participation on our part in the disarmament discussions.

Stimson
  1. Delivered February 7, Records of the Conference, Series B, Minutes of the General Commission, vol. ii, p. 251.↩