Office of the Historian

793.94 Advisory Committee/23: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Minister in Switzerland (Wilson), at Geneva

Washington, March 16, 1933—8 p.m.

89. Department’s telegrams 85, March 11, 7 p.m., and 86, March 11, 8 p.m.,68 and your telegram 150, March 15, 8 p.m.

For guidance:

The Department desires that you do not participate in conversations which may take place in connection with the examination of “problems of the export of arms in relation to the present situation in the Far East” other than, if asked, to state the attitude and policy of this Government as set forth in the pertinent sections of Department’s 85, March 11, 7 p.m.

Hull
  1. For telegram No. 86, see Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. i, p. 117.↩