Office of the Historian

893.01 Manchuria/281: Telegram

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

Geneva, June 24, 1932—noon.
[Received June 24—7:47 a.m.]

212. Consulate’s 210, June 22, 11 a.m.67 Under instructions from his Government Yen has transmitted to Drummond following letter dated June 23:

“In view of the serious situation created by the Japanese Diet passing resolution for recognition of the ‘Manchukuo’ please make an urgent appeal to the special Committee of Nineteen to take immediate steps calling upon the Japanese Government to observe obligations under the September and December resolutions of the League Council68 to refrain from taking initiative which will further aggravate the situation and to desist from such recognition which is sure to render work of the Commission of Inquiry abortive and prepare way for grave conflict in the Far East.”

Gilbert
  1. Not printed.↩
  2. Resolutions of September 30 and December 10, 1931, Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. i, pp. 13 and 59.↩