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

File No. 793.94/583

Ambassador Morris to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

American Embassy,
Tokyo, November 2, 1917, 12 p.m.

Text stated to be that [of the?] proposed joint note, in reference to China, was confidentially given two days ago⁶⁴ by the Minister for Foreign Affairs to the other Ambassadors here to take note of and to communicate to their Governments. I am informed that he stated that it would be signed without doubt in a day or two.

Morris

64. November 1, 1917. See Ambassador Morris’s despatch No. 7, November 16, 1917, post. p. 271.