Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1925, Volume I

574.D7/242a

The Secretary of State to Certain Diplomatic Officers

Washington, March 15, 1926.

The Department encloses a translation of Circular No. 190, dated January 22, 1926,²⁵ issued by the International Telegraph Bureau at Berne, respecting the International Radiotelegraph Conference to be held at Washington. Owing to the period of time required for obtaining statements of the various governments containing proposed changes in or amendments to the International Radiotelegraph Convention concluded at London on July 5, 1912, and in the Regulations annexed thereto, it has been decided that it will be necessary to postpone the International Radiotelegraph Conference to be held at Washington from the spring of 1926 to a later date. The exact date for holding the Conference will be communicated to you in a later instruction.

You will inform the Government to which you are accredited of the postponement of the Conference and you will state that information concerning the exact date on which the Conference will be held will be forwarded at a later date.²⁶

I am [etc.]

For the Secretary of State:

Leland Harrison

25. Not printed.
26. In a circular instruction dated Feb. 11, 1927, the Department informed the American diplomatic officers that for the same reasons it had been considered advisable to postpone the Conference until the fall of 1927.