Office of the Historian

893.50A/92: Telegram (part air)

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

Geneva, May 17, 1934—6 p.m.
[Received May 19—5:30 a.m.]

255. My 251, May 15, 11 a.m. The China Technical Committee met this afternoon and after declarations by Rajchman and Koo51 adopted the following report. Except for their remarks described in the report there was no discussion.

“The Council Committee at its meeting on May 17th began the examination of the report together with the detailed documents mentioned therein of its technical agent on his mission in China from the date of his appointment until April 1st, 1934.52 Dr. Rajchman the technical agent made a short statement on the development of the technical cooperation between the League of Nations and China.

During exchange of views that ensued the representative of China conveyed to the Committee his Government’s high appreciation of the services rendered by the technical agent and the various experts; he further pointed out the value attached by his Government to effective technical cooperation with all states through the intermediary of the League of Nations.

The Committee, noting that the cooperation between the League of Nations and China was being carried out under conditions conforming [Page 383] to the resolutions adopted by the Council on May 31 [19?], 193153 and April [July?] 3, 193354 as well as the resolution of the Council Committee on July 18, 1933,55 is glad to find that the methods of cooperation provided for under these resolutions are calculated to render useful service in the task of Chinese reconstruction.

The Secretary General was requested to transmit the report of the technical agent to the technical organization of the League. The technical agent was invited to give to the technical organizations and sections concerned all requisite complementary information. The Secretary General will transmit in due course to the Council Committee the observations of these technical organizations.

The present report will be forwarded by the Secretary General to the members of the Council.”

Wilson
  1. V. K. Wellington Koo, Chinese Minister in France.↩
  2. See League of Nations, Council Committee on Technical Co-operation Between the League of Nations and China: Report of the Technical Agent of the Council on His Mission in China from the date of his appointment until April 1st, 1934 (C. 157.M.66.1934), Geneva, April 30th, 1934.↩
  3. League of Nations, Official Journal, July 1931, p. 1172.↩
  4. Ibid., September 1933, p. 1058.↩
  5. Ibid., November 1933, p. 1468.↩