861.77 Chinese Eastern/64: Telegram
The Consul at Geneva (Rand) to the Secretary of State
[Received July 23—9:40 a.m.]
From conversations with responsible members of Secretariat, I believe the League will take no official action in regard to Sino-Russian crisis unless forced to by imminence of war. Feeling is that Russian hostility to the League would render ineffective the interventions [intervention of?] the latter and perhaps make matters worse. Such an outcome would injure prestige of League. They place their hope at present in the efforts of individual members of the Council to settle conflict. Situation now regarded encouraging. Developments will be [apparent omission], Drummond12 and other important members of Secretariat absent now, rendering it more difficult to obtain conclusive information.
- Sir Eric Drummond, Secretary General of the League of Nations.↩