Office of the Historian

500.A15A4 Steering Committee/496: Telegram

The Minister in Switzerland (Wilson) to the Secretary of State

Geneva, October 10, 1936—11 a.m.
[Received October 11—10:40 a.m.]

1079. The Council adopted last night a resolution the pertinent part of which follows:

“Referring to the Third Committee’s report approved by the Assembly on October 10th, 1936;

Authorizes the President of the Council, after consultation with his colleagues, to settle, as soon as circumstances permit and in any case before the end of the year, the date of the meeting of the Bureau of the Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments, and to instruct the Secretary-General to proceed with its convocation;

And decides to communicate the report and the minutes of the Third Committee, together with the minutes of the present meeting, to the members of the Bureau and to all the states represented at the Conference.”

Wilson