763.72119/3064
The British Chargé ( Barclay ) to the Secretary of State
Memorandum
His Britannic Majesty’s Chargé d’Affaires presents his compliments to the Secretary of State, and has the honour to inform him, by direction of his Government, that the Swiss Government have expressed a desire to be represented at the Peace Conference or at [Page 281] such meetings of it as deal with questions affecting general or particular Swiss interests. This raises the whole question of the participation of neutrals.
His Majesty’s Government would be grateful for an expression of the views of the United States Government on this question.