500.C115/374: Telegram
The Consul at Geneva ( Gilbert ) to the Secretary of State
[Received September 8—7:19 a.m.]
225. Consulate’s 188, July 2, 10 a.m.,20 paragraph 2; Department’s 86, August 18, 4 p.m. Butler informs me today that there are numerous precedents for the financial obligations of states becoming members of the International Labor Organization not being regarded as effective until January 1 of the year following admission.
While such a matter rests entirely with the governing body presumably in connection with the “negotiations” respecting the United States contribution it could probably be adjusted if it would facilitate the budgetary arrangements of the United States for liability for the American contribution to begin January 1, 1935.
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