893.50A/109: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Switzerland (Wilson)
169. Your 274, October 8, 9 a.m. Department is informing Sweetser orally that the Department perceives no objection to participation by an American national in the work of this commission and is suggesting that, as not only the majority but apparently all of the other participants are civilians, the League proceed, if it wishes that there be an American engineer on the commission, to choose a qualified American who also is a civilian. The Department has also made informal suggestions to Sweetser in regard to the method of establishing contact with American civilian engineers.
You may inform Haas orally in the above sense.96
- The League announced on November 7 that, following consultations with three experts (French, American, and German), a mission composed of four engineers (British, French, Dutch, and Italian) had left for China. (893.50A/120)↩