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500.A15A5/576: Telegram

The Chairman of the American Delegation (Davis) to the Secretary of State

London, December 9, 1935—1 p.m.
[Received December 9—9:20 a.m.]

7. The London Naval Conference 1935 opened this morning at 10:30 and followed the procedure outlined in the Embassy’s 581, November 21, 5 p.m. and 592, November 26, 6 p.m.99 Following delivery of the opening speeches the Conference resolved itself into committee of the whole called First Committee which will meet tomorrow morning at 10:30 at Clifford House. Texts of speeches being forwarded by mail.1

Davis
  1. Neither printed.↩
  2. For texts of speeches, see The London Naval Conference, 1935, Report of the Delegates of the United States, p. 48; the text of the speech delivered by the Chairman of the American delegation is also printed in telegram No. 373, November 30, 1935, 4 p.m., to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom, Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. i, p. 281.↩