724.3415/4188: Telegram
The Consul at Geneva (Gilbert) to the Secretary of State
[Received September 27—7:44 a.m.]
275. The immediate technical situation of the Chaco question before the League is:
- (a)
- —The draft resolution quoted in my 274, September 26, 8 p.m. awaits Assembly approval.
- (b)
- —The developments envisaged in paragraph 5 and the penultimate paragraph of that telegram await action in some form by the proposed League Chaco Committee after its establishment.
Adoption of the draft resolution by the Assembly appears certain. It is further understood that Madariaga59 will be Chairman of the Committee and that its first meeting will be held on Friday.
Last evening Avenol and Madariaga jointly stated to me that they construed the procedures in the Sixth Committee cited in my telegram referred to above as in effect an invitation to the United States to participate in the League Chaco Commission. They thus felt justified at this time, and that it was further incumbent on them in view of the changed situation, to ask me to ascertain confidentially and informally whether the United States would participate.
[Page 87]Such reply [as] I may be instructed to make to this inquiry will obviously govern the action of the Committee after its establishment in extending an invitation to the United States.
Avenol informed me Brazil was being approached in a similar sense.
- Representative of Spain on the League Council.↩