793.94/400a: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in China (Reinsch)
The President desires that you call upon the Foreign Office and urge that the negotiations between China and Japan shall be conducted in a spirit of patience and friendliness, and be continued until an amicable solution of the existing disputes is found. China and Japan, because of their geographical position must remain neighbors and because of their mutual interests must be friends. It would be most unfortunate if they should be brought into armed conflict, especially at this time when so large a portion of the world is at war. Peaceful means are urged in the conviction that they will, in the end, prove best for both China and Japan and for the rest of the world as well.