793.94 Conference/4a: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Belgium (Gibson)
Washington, October 10, 1937—noon.
46. Supplementing my 45, October 8, 4 p.m. the British Foreign Office has instructed British Chargé d’Affaires at Brussels to approach van Zeeland with the suggestion that latter summon Nine Power Conference to meet in Brussels. You are requested to get in touch with van Zeeland personally and as urgently as possible and convey to him confidentially the expression of the earnest hope of the President and myself that he will accept this suggestion.
Hull