Office of the Historian

500.A15/209: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Chargé in France (Whitehouse)

Washington, April 15, 1926—5 p.m.

96. Department’s 93, April 12, 1926, and your 146, April 13, 1926. The press here carries repeated rumors, under Paris and London date lines, that French Government intends to bring about postponement of preparatory meeting through medium of requests by Baltic States and Poland. In view of these rumors, the Department desires you to see Briand or Berthelot80 personally and set forth the views of this Government as outlined in Department’s 93.

Repeat to Embassy London as Depts 55 by telegraph and also Department’s 93 in case text of latter telegram not already available there.

Kellogg
  1. Philippe Joseph Louis Berthelot, Secretary General of the French Ministry for Foreign Affairs.↩