500.C1199/225: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Bingham)15
338. Please secure promptly a copy of the report of the League Economic Committee which has just been released. It deals with various aspects of commercial policy including the most-favored-nation question. In main substance it appears to be a highly satisfactory support for the program which the Department has been advancing and for which it has sought the concerted initiative of other governments.
Also before the Assembly meeting, will you see the proper officials of the Government and query them as to what instructions will be given as to the disposition of the report by the Council and Assembly. You may freely make known our reaction to the report and our interest that it should not remain an ineffectual analysis and statement of recommendation and that everything feasible should be done by all interested governments to develop action in accord with it.
- The same on the same date to the Ambassador in France as Department’s No. 349.↩