500.A15A5/681: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Chairman of the American Delegation (Davis)
47. Your 106, February 25, 11 p.m. We offer no objection to the French suggestion that four powers now in conference enter into a treaty and for British to enter into bilateral treaty with Germany. You should make it clear, however, that the purpose of the American mission is to extend existing Washington and London treaties which included five original powers and that the United States takes no part in a British, French, Italian arrangement by which a bilateral treaty would be made to include Germany—this being essentially a European problem.