893.71 Manchuria/60: Telegram
The Minister in Switzerland (Wilson) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 16—2:15 p.m.]
253. Department’s 152, May 15, 1 p.m.
- 1.
- At the meeting of the Advisory Committee on “Manchukuo” this
afternoon the president circulated a draft project essentially
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the same as that outlined
in my 247, May 14, 4 p.m. The last subparagraph, however, differed
slightly from subparagraph (c) and read as
follows:
“In the event of such measures involving the establishment of relations between postal administrations of states members of the League and the postal administration of ‘Manchukuo’, such relations should only be regarded as relations between one administration and another, for the sole purpose of insuring the proper conduct of technical service, and not as relations between one state and another or between one government and another. Lest these technical relations lead to confusion, it is recommended that, should the postal administrations of states members of the League address correspondence to the postal administration of ‘Manchukuo’, such communications should contain once for all an explicit statement that they are only to be regarded as communications between one administration and another, for the sole purpose of insuring the proper conduct of technical services, and that they do not imply that the Universal Postal Convention14 is applicable.”
- 2.
- In order to reenforce the draft in the sense of your instruction I offered as an amendment to insert the words “and not as communications between one government and another” after the word “services” in the final sentence of the subparagraph above quoted. The amendment was accepted without objection and the draft project adopted. Final text by mail.15