793.94 Conference/61
The Department of State to the British Embassy
Memorandum of Conversation With Mr. Mallet, British Chargé d’Affaires, October 19, 1937
In a conversation with Mr. Mallet, Mr. Wilson expressed to the British Chargé d’Affaires the thanks of the Government of the United States for the interesting aide-mémoire in respect to the preliminary examination of the problems to be considered at the Brussels conference, which the British Government has been good enough to supply.
Mr. Wilson stated that the Government of the United States was of the opinion that, for the moment, considerations such as those raised under point “C” of the British aide-mémoire did not arise in a conference which had for its objective the finding of a solution of the conflict in the Far East by agreement.
Mr. Wilson informed Mr. Mallet that the American Government had been giving much thought to the question of possible procedure with two objectives, that of inducing the two parties to the conflict to enter upon an armistice, to be followed by peaceful negotiation, and that of endeavoring of finding a means of stabilizing conditions in the Far East. Mr. Norman Davis, who is sailing tomorrow, is fully conversant with such thoughts and it had occurred to the Secretary of State that it might be advisable to invite Mr. Eden’s attention to this phase of the problem, in anticipation of his talks with Mr. Davis in Brussels.
Mr. Wilson informed Mr. Mallet that a copy of the aide-mémoire of the British Government would be forwarded to Mr. Davis to reach him before he sails on the Washington.