500.A14/661

The Secretary of State to the Chairman of the American Delegation to the General Disarmament Conference (Davis)

Sir: I refer to my instruction of June 5, 1934,17 and enclose, for your personal and confidential information, a copy of a note of June 5, 1934, from the Persian Minister in this capital,18 in regard to the Arms Traffic Convention of 1925.

Your attention is invited to the fact that the “ultimate decision” ascribed by the Minister to this Government is not entirely in accord with the statements made in the notes which he acknowledges. Should any statement of the Persian Delegate in Geneva, in regard to the position of this Government in this matter, represent inaccurately our position in such a manner as to cause possible embarrassment, you are authorized to use the statements made in our notes of May 16, May 19, May 29 and June 4, 1934, to the Persian Minister in such a manner as your discretion may dictate.

Very truly yours,

For the Secretary of State:
R. Walton Moore
  1. Ante, p. 102.
  2. Supra.