882.5048/341a: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Liberia (Mitchell)
44. Department’s telegrams No. 40, May 26, 2 p.m., and No. 42, June 4, 6 p.m.45 The following is submitted for your further information and guidance with respect to the experts of the International Committee who will shortly arrive:
These officials are the representatives of the International Committee and as such they will doubtless deal direct with the Liberian Government, rather than through the local diplomatic missions of [Page 688] the countries represented at Monrovia whose Governments may also be members of the International Committee. Consequently, while I hope that you will cultivate friendly personal relations on the basis of which you will be able to obtain informally reports of the progress of their work for transmission to the Department, I desire you carefully to avoid on the one hand any appearance of acting as intermediary for the experts, and on the other any activity which might be construed as an effort to influence the course of their investigations or the substance or extent of their recommendations. (In this connection please see the Department’s telegram No. 34 of April 3, 1 p.m., 1930,46 particularly the first paragraph and the third and fourth sentences of the second paragraph; and Department’s telegram No. 47, May 8, 3 p.m., 1930,47 first paragraph).
Should you have any doubt as to a specific case which might arise, further instructions should be sought.
- Neither printed.↩
- Foreign Relations, 1930, vol. iii, p. 343.↩
- Not printed.↩