500.A15A4 General Committee/767
Memorandum by the Secretary of State
The British Ambassador called and inquired as to what the United States Government was thinking in regard to the British Disarmament proposal of some days ago. I replied that we had not taken up the matter concretely with a view to reaching definite and technical conclusions about it. I added that we were earnestly considering all phases of the present Disarmament situation; that without having reached definite conclusions as to just how far our Government would go in collaborating and cooperating with the British and other governments in their efforts to clarify and solve the present deadlock, it was our definite purpose to have Mr. Norman Davis return to Geneva about the 20th of this month, assuming that the Bureau would call a meeting of the committee; and that in the meantime Mr. Davis and others of us would confer as to detailed policy. I finally stated that in no circumstances was it the purpose of our Government to become involved politically in this movement.