793.94/10460: Telegram
The Minister in Switzerland (Harrison) to the Secretary of State
[Received October 6—6 p.m.]
33. My telegram No. 30, October 5, 10 p.m. The Assembly this afternoon adopted as its own without further discussion and without a record vote the reports and resolution submitted by the Advisory Committee. Siam abstained in the absence of instructions. Poland abstained on the same juridicial grounds stated in the Subcommittee and in the Advisory Committee. The Assembly than adjourned to be reconvened “if the Advisory Committee so requests.”
I have been told on good authority that President Roosevelt’s speech80 influenced several delegations which might otherwise have abstained from voting. Among them probably Canada which reserved its vote yesterday in the Advisory Committee pending receipt of instructions and Switzerland which in line with its traditional policy had abstained from voting in the Spanish question.
After the meeting the President of the Assembly immediately signed letters to the members of the League parties to the Washington Treaty inviting them to initiate the consultation provided for under article 7 at the earliest moment possible. League members so addressed are: (1) Signatories, Union of South Africa, Australia, Belgium, United Kingdom, Canada, China, France, India, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand and Portugal; (2) Adherents, Bolivia, Denmark, Mexico, Norway, Sweden.
- October 5 at Chicago, ibid., p. 379.↩