793.94 Commission/749: Telegram
The Minister in Switzerland (Wilson) to the Secretary of State
[Received January 18—9:25 p.m.]
81. The following communiqué was issued at the close of the meeting of the Committee of Nineteen this evening:
“The Committee of Nineteen today examined the proposals of the Japanese Government which were communicated to its President this morning.
The Committee noted that these proposals differed on a number of fundamental points from those it had approved and communicated to the parties. One of the main objections of the Japanese Government is to the inclusion, in a commission to settle the dispute submitted to the League, of representatives of nonmember states. The Committee considers that if this were Japan’s only objection to the texts which have been communicated to her it would not be impossible to settle the question in consultation with the two parties. It therefore deems it necessary to obtain further information, in particular, as to question whether, if this difficulty were surmounted, [Page 110] Japan would be prepared to accept the draft resolution drawn up by the Committee last December,30
The Committee asked its President and the Secretary-General to get into communication with the Japanese delegation on this point.
Before continuing the conversations with the Chinese delegation the Committee thought it should first make certain of the reply from the Japanese delegation.
The next meeting of the Committee will take place on Friday”.
A confidential summary of the Committee’s discussions follows as my 82, January 18, 11 p.m.
- See telegram No. 72, December 15, 1932, 9 p.m., from the Minister in Switzerland, Foreign Relations, 1932, vol. iv, p. 432.↩