765.84/3129: Telegram
The Consul at Geneva (Gilbert) to the Secretary of State
[Received 9:15 p.m.]
664. 1. The Secretariat [Secretary General?] this afternoon circulated a communication25 addressed to him today by Abyssinian Government which gives a long juridical discussion of the League procedural background of the Italo-Abyssinian dispute to date and points out that the Franco-British proposals, both in substance and in form, are not consonant therewith. Local American press agencies are telegraphing the essential portions of this communication and I am mailing the full text. It will be noted that the discussion is a continuation of the line of argument advanced in the Abyssinian communication reported in my telegram number 653, December 13, 8 p.m.
[Page 716]2. At the meeting of the Council this afternoon the President announced the receipt of this communication and stated that it did not constitute a reply to the Franco-British suggestions.
- League of Nations, Official Journal, January 1936, p. 42.↩