Office of the Historian

500.A15/592

The Minister in Switzerland (Wilson) to the Secretary of State

Berne, October 25, 1927.
[Received November 12.]
No. 144
L. N. No. 985

Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary General of the League of Nations dated October 24, 1927, (C. L. 137 (a) 1927 IX),49 in which Sir Eric brings to the attention of the Department paragraphs of the resolution of the Assembly and of the decision of the Council providing that states, nonmembers of the League of Nations represented on the Preparatory Commission may, if they so desire, sit on the Committee indicated in paragraph three of the Assembly’s resolution of September 26, 1927, relative to the work of disarmament.50

I have [etc.]

For the Minister:
Leon H. Ellis

Secretary of Legation
  1. Not printed.↩
  2. Resolution No. 5, printed in League of Nations, Official Journal, October 1927, p. 1483. The resolution provides, in part, that: “This Committee would be placed at the Commission’s disposal and its duty would be to consider, on the lines indicated by the Commission, the measures capable of giving all States the guarantees of arbitration and security necessary to enable them to fix the level of their armaments at the lowest possible figures in an international disarmament agreement.”↩