511.4A2A/1045: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Geneva (Tittmann)
Washington, December
23, 1940—9 p.m.
166. Your telegram no. 233, December 18, 6 p.m.
- (1)
- Department authorized Bern to grant diplomatic visas for Steinig, Felkin, Renborg, Curry, Atzenwiler and Siebert. (Telegrams nos. 117, July 25, 5 p.m., 21, September 23, 6 p.m., 186, October 15, and 198, November 1.)36 Steinig, Secretary Felkin and Statistician Blumenfeld are already here.
- (2)
- Department has informed May as Vice President of Permanent Central Opium Board that the Department will raise no objection to the functioning through branch offices in the United States of the Permanent Central Opium Board and the Drug Supervisory Body as independent bodies operating under drug treaties to which the United States is a party.
- (3)
- May states that neither board has been invited to go to Princeton. Department hopes that they will not be. It is understood that the League employes now at Princeton are engaged in continuing research and are not functioning administratively. In this connection see Department’s telegram no. 74 of June 29, 5 p.m. The two drug boards are located in New York.37
- (4)
- You may inform Lester accordingly.
- (5)
- For your information and guidance, the Department considers it preferable that the branch offices of the two drug boards should be entirely separate from other establishments in order to obviate any question of administrative functioning in the United States of international organizations operating under conventions to which the United States is not a party.
Hull