Der Fuehrer - Hitler's Rise to Power (1944) - Heiden

718 DER FUEHREROn May 29, at one of those belated and hopeless meetings of theDisarmament Conference — it was the 'General Commission,' to beexact — Norman Davis, in the name of the United States government,declared that his country was prepared to co-operate in efforts to securea general disarmament — but: 'The United States will not, however,take part in European political negotiations and settlements, and will notmake any attempt whatever to use its armed forces for the settlement ofany dispute anywhere.... The policy of the United States is to keep outof war....'