840.515 Gold Bloc/13: Telegram (part air)
The Consul at Geneva (Gilbert) to the Secretary of State
Geneva, October
26, 1934—11 a.m.
[Received October 27—5:08 p.m.]
[Received October 27—5:08 p.m.]
302. Consulate’s 287, October 3, 3 p.m. Stoppani who was in Paris at a recent meeting of the League Financial Committee informs me as follows:
- 1.
- The Economic Committee had previously designated five members to serve on the Joint Committee on Compensation and Clearing in line with paragraph 2 of telegram under reference. The Financial Committee, however, instead of appointing only three members, appointed five (Great Britain, France, Czechoslovakia, Belgium, the Netherlands) thus precluding the plan for possible American and Hungarian membership. Consulate’s 291, October 6, 4 p.m.17
- 2.
- A meeting of the Joint Committee was held and Pospisil, Czechoslovakia, the Chairman, was given wide powers to arrange for collaboration with the Committee on the part of Government representatives of organizations or individual experts generally in line with alternatives B and C of my telegram in a future meeting about the first of the year to consider material now being collected. Stoppani perceives no difficulty in arranging for American participation at that time if it be desired.
Gilbert
- Not printed.↩