Office of the Historian

500.A15a4 Personnel/193: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Minister in Switzerland (Wilson)

Washington, December 29, 1931—5 p.m.

176. You may inform the Secretary General of the League of Nations that the following delegates and members of the Delegation to the General Disarmament Conference have been appointed:

  • The Honorable Charles G. Dawes, American Ambassador to Great Britain, Chairman of the Delegation;45
  • The Honorable Hugh Gibson, American Ambassador to Belgium;
  • The Honorable Claude A. Swanson, United States Senator;
  • The Honorable Norman H. Davis;
  • Dr. Mary Emma Woolley;
  • Alternate Delegate: The Honorable Hugh Wilson, American Minister to Switzerland.

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  • Advisers:
    • For the State Department:
      • Mr. Theodore Marriner, Counselor of Embassy;
    • For the Army:
      • Brigadier-General George S. Simonds;
    • For the Navy:
      • Rear Admiral Arthur J. Hepburn.
  • Technical Advisers:
    • For the State Department:
      • Mr. S. Pinkney Tuck, First Secretary of Embassy;
    • For the Army:
      • Lieutenant-Colonel George V. Strong;
      • Major James B. Ord;
      • Major James E. Chaney;
    • For the Navy:
      • Captain A. H. Van Keuren;
      • Commander Thomas C. Kinkaid;
      • Commander Richmond K. Turner.
  • Secretariat:
    • Mr. James Clement Dunn, Secretary;
    • Mr. David McK. Key;
    • Mr. Samuel Reber, Jr.
  • Press Relations:
    • Mr. Robert Thompson Pell.

Repeat to Brussels and London.

Stimson
  1. On January 19, 1932, President Hoover announced that Ambassador Dawes had accepted the presidency of the newly created Reconstruction Finance Corporation and that, accordingly, Secretary of State Stimson would undertake the chairmanship of the American delegation to the Disarmament Conference (Department of State, Press Releases, January 23, 1932, p. 83).↩