724.3415/3817: Telegram
The Consul at Geneva (Gilbert) to the Secretary of State
[Received June 11—10:35 a.m.]
157. Consulate’s 151, June 9, noon, paragraph 4, arms embargo proposal. The British Delegation has just read to me the following note from the German Government dated June 9:
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has the honor to inform His Majesty’s Embassy in reply to their note number 196 that the German Government continue to recognize after their withdrawal from the League of Nations the principles of the declaration of March 1933 which they signed in the League of Nations together with other states regarding the prohibition of the export and transport of weapons, material of war, airplanes, parts therefor, and munitions to the countries of Paraguay, and Bolivia which are at war with each other and are ready to act in accordance with that declaration provided that all of the participating governments engage as before to act similarly. The German Government presumes from the note under reference that this condition is fulfilled as regards His Majesty’s Government and notes at the same time that the list mentioned of the states concerned remains the same as last year.”
The British Delegation is communicating this formally to the League today.