Robert Dell to Gordon Phillips.
Location: Geneva.
He returns to the question of the Franco-Russian Pact and Voigt. He thinks that it would have been useful to let it be known that the French had refused staff consultations with Russia, but Voigt did not say so in his article; the Pact makes no provision for consultations, but there was agreement that these should take place. He discusses the issue of the Pact in detail. Membership of the Communist party in France has risen to 10,000, while the trade unions have about five million members. The official section of the C.G.T. attacks the non-intervention policy regarding Spain. The information he supplied about Blum's attitude was confidential, and should be treated as such.