500.A15A4 General Committee/955: Telegram
The Chairman of the American Delegation (Davis) to the Secretary of State
[Received June 5—2:10 p.m.]
872. Referring my 870, June 4, midnight, when I decided early this morning that I would not present our resolution unless the French and British would agree to support it Henderson decided that he would present a proposal himself which he had drafted taking as a basis our draft. In the meantime I did have a talk with Aubert who personally favored our draft with certain modifications which would have been acceptable both to the British and ourselves but we cannot tell whether they will even accept Henderson’s proposal because Litvinoff who has so much influence with the French just now is bitterly opposed to any effort to bring the Germans back into the negotiations. In certain quarters, therefore, efforts have been made to create the impression that the British and Americans are lined up because we both naturally took the same position in the Bureau yesterday, namely, as to the vital necessity of German cooperation for the negotiation of a treaty which position was also vigorously supported by all the neutrals.