Office of the Historian

793.94/6484: Telegram

The Consul at Geneva (Gilbert) to the Secretary of State

Geneva, September 29, 1933—3 p.m.
[Received September 29—7:23 a.m.]

206. In his address to the Assembly this morning which chiefly concerned the Sino-Japanese conflict Koo made the following points of policy. The Assembly report strengthened by the approval of the United States remains for China the only satisfactory settlement. China maintains the doctrine of nonrecognition and the present situation in China will remain only as long as it is physically impossible for China and politically impossible for the rest of the world to correct.

Gilbert