Office of the Historian

793.94 Commission/826: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Minister in Switzerland (Wilson), at Geneva

Washington, February 24, 1933—10 a.m.

75. Your 122, February 22, 7 p.m.24 You may in your discretion tell Drummond in confidence that I am assuming that upon being informed of your receipt of such a letter and after examination by me of text, I shall be able to reply promptly and favorably and make his letter and my reply public.25 Please obtain his authorization for my thus, in such event, making text of his letter public.26

Stimson
  1. Not printed.↩
  2. For texts of Drumraond’s letter and the Secretary’s reply, see telegrams No. 125, February 24, 1933, 7 p.m., from the Minister in Switzerland, and No. 78, February 25, 6 p.m., to the Minister in Switzerland, Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. i, pp. 114 and 115.↩
  3. The Minister in Switzerland replied as follows: “Drummond much pleased and authorizes you to make public text of his letter” (793.94 Commission/836).↩