711.4112Anti-War/28: Telegram
The Minister in Switzerland (Wilson) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 4—9 a.m.]
47. In a conversation I had this morning with Sir Eric Drummond50 he expressed the opinion that there was no inconsistency between our proposal for the condemnation of war and the League of Nations Covenant. This personal opinion he is impressing on all the statesmen with whom he comes in contact, but so far he has failed to convince the French.
As Drummond sees it, the states members of the League are already under the obligation not to make war on one another, and, after having agreed to the proposal we have made, they would all be committed more definitely by their obligations under the Covenant to observance of the Kellogg Pact. Drummond stated further that states members of the League of Nations would be under definite obligation, because of the League Covenant, to take action against another member state which should violate the Kellogg Pact.
- Secretary General of the League of Nations.↩