793.94 Commission/33: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Consul at Geneva (Gilbert)
19. Your 21, January 19, noon.34 Reference staff of the Commission of Inquiry on Manchuria, General McCoy feels that an adequate personal staff for each Commissioner is essential to the proper performance of their duties on this important mission. General McCoy believes that under the present arrangements it will be impossible for the individual commissioners adequately to study, compile and analyze the mass of data and information necessary to arriving at intelligent and accurate opinions and conclusions or to conduct such individual reconnaissance or investigations in the outlying districts as are certain to be necessary in the course of the Commission’s inquiry.
For your own personal information I concur with General McCoy in the belief that a personal staff for each commissioner is essential to [Page 43] the proper performance of their duties if it is intended that the Commission’s inquiry should be thorough and complete. And furthermore I feel strongly that the individual commissioner should not be asked to bear the expenses involved in providing a necessary personal staff, but that such expense should be borne by the League.
Without making this an official representation, please submit General McCoy’s views to the Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry with the suggestion that he submit this important matter of personal staffs for the commissioners to the League for reconsideration.
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