Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1936, General, British Commonwealth, Volume I

500.A15A5 Submarines/4: Telegram

The Acting Secrtary of State to the Chairman of the American Delegation to the London Naval Conference (Davis)

Washington, March 20, 1936—8 p.m.

76. Your 143, March 19, 1 p.m.⁴ The President authorizes the American delegates to the London Naval Conference, 1935, to sign a procès-verbal designed to obtain further accessions to the rules of international law concerning submarine warfare to which the United States as well as the United Kingdom and Japan are now expressly committed under the London Naval Treaty of 1930.⁵

William Phillips

4. Not printed.
5. The Department was informed by telegram No. 165, March 25, 10 p.m., from Mr. Davis that the Japanese would not receive instructions in time for them to sign the procès-verbal before the following week (500.A15A5 Submarines/11).