Office of the Historian

740.00119 FEAC/10–1445: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in France (Caffery)
Washington, October 16, 1945—6 p.m.

4813. Reurtel 5969, October 11, 11 a.m.51 You may wish to convey the following information to the Foreign Ministry:

General McCoy was selected as U.S. representative on the Far Eastern Advisory Commission not because of his military experience but because of his wide knowledge of international and especially Far Eastern affairs and his experience on international commissions, particularly on the League of Nations Commission of inquiry on Manchuria [Page 757] (Lytton Commission).52 He retired from the Army some years ago and is now President of the Foreign Policy Association. He will serve on the Commission as a civilian with personal rank of Ambassador.

Byrnes
  1. Not printed.↩
  2. For the appointment of Gen. Frank R. McCoy, see telegram 18, January 18, 1932, noon, from Geneva, Foreign Relations, 1932, vol. iii, p. 32.↩