500.A15A4/1036: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Acting Chairman of the American Delegation (Gibson)
104. Special for Gibson and Davis. Your 169, May 13, 4 p.m., from London.
When Mr. Baldwin made suggestion as to capital ships contained in your Section 4, did either of you inform him (a) as to the position taken by the American Delegation at London in 1930,11 (b) as to my recent statements on the subject in Geneva or (c) as to the functions capital ships are now performing in respect to the Far East? Please immediately send full details and his reply if any.
Did you gather that Mr. Baldwin’s failure to include submarines in his list of weapons to be abolished was an over-sight or intentional; if intentional, did he give any explanation therefor?
- See telegram No. 35, February 4, from the Chairman of the American delegation, Foreign Relations, 1930, vol. i, p. 13; and telegram No. 212, April 10, from the Chairman of the American delegation, ibid., p. 106.↩