500.A15A4 General Committee/968: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Chairman of the American Delegation (Davis)
Washington, June
7, 1934—6 p.m.
428. Your 878, June 6, midnight.
- (1)
- We of course give you complete discretion in your handling of the question of manufacture of and traffic in arms and consider success in the broader issue of disarmament of greater import than an immediate success in one of its component elements.
- (2)
- We agree with you that the French resolution in its present form offers little hope of progress. Nevertheless if as you indicate it is improved to a point where in your judgment (concurred in we hope by the “neutral” Powers) it places disarmament on a parity with security and expresses a determination to proceed with negotiations for actual disarmament, we see no reason for you to oppose it.
Hull