Hotel Metropole,
357
Geneva.
Thais.
Dear Paskin,
15 September, 1923.
I have given Delevigne a copy of the draft despach
enclosed in your letter of the 5th.September and have discussed
it with him.
He thinks that the sooner we get the despatches off the better
and that the best plan will be to send them with the first
paragraphs more or leas as they are and when we know the exact
decision of the Assembly to send a further short despatch to
each, or perhaps a telegram.
He quite agrees with the drafts and only has the following
suggestiona to make:-
for
Paragraph 1. We might send also, say, six coples of the minutes
of the meeting.
For "the next Assembly" say"the Assembly now in session" or
some such phrase, and similarly at the end of the paragraph. Paragraph 6. For "Recommendations" put "usgestions".
Paragraph 9, IV, last sub,para.
ally, kuping
"and it will probably..
Either leave out or tone down
special treatment" so as to
or something
read "and it may perhaps be desirable for ...." of the kind; he does not want to make it too easy. Similar paragraph to straits, penultimate sub-para. Omit
✓ "altogether".
In the last sub-para leave out the last sentence; Delevigne
is trying to get you copies of a more satisfactory memor-
-andum by van Wettum, the Netherlands Representative on the
Advisory Committee.
/Paragraph 11.For "if possible
..
May" read "to reach me
by the end of May at the latest". Ithink Delevigne wants to have the Conference before the next Assembly with a
little to spare.
Paragraph 12 (to straits), He doesn't quite like this.
then
$
Swettenham told him that it could be put into force in the