783.003/132: Telegram
The Minister in Egypt (Fish) to the Secretary of State
[Received 12:25 p.m.]
74. The Minister of Foreign Affairs informed Childs40 at a social gathering last evening that invitations to the Conference were being held up owing to the postponement of the exchange of ratifications of the Anglo-Egyptian treaty consequent upon the failure of King Edward the VIII to sign any state documents including the treaty during the present constitutional crisis. He added that it was the present intention of the Egyptian Government to allow at least 2 months between the date of the issuance of the invitations and the convening of Conference and that it was contemplated the invitations would include the program of the Conference which would follow the lines of the annex to article 13 of the treaty. The Minister stated that if the convening of the Conference coincided with the meeting of the League which received Egypt as a member the Conference would probably be held in Geneva.
- J. Rives Childs, Second Secretary of Legation in Egypt.↩