Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 4, 1917

File No. 893.00/2618

Chargé Wheeler to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

American Embassy,
Tokyo, June 18, 1917, 4 p.m.

Today the Minister for Foreign Affairs gave me a copy of the memorandum handed on June 15, to the Secretary of State by Ambassador Sato. Mr. Shidehara informs me that telegram from the latter received this morning advises that the Secretary of State “expressed himself as quite in accord with the deep sense of the memorandum and stated that from more recent developments in China he was inclined to think the necessity for presenting an identic representation such as had been suggested had now disappeared.”

Wheeler