893.51/2334: Telegram
The Ambassador in France (Wallace) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received July 25, 2.04 a.m.]
1152. Foreign Office considers that it is wholly inadmissible that Manchuria and Mongolia should be excluded from the sphere activities of the consortium but in making this oral statement insists that no use should be made thereof in any action or representations which would tend to eliminate Japan from participation in the consortium.
In the conversation it developed that the French Foreign Office is strongly opposed to the elimination of Japan from the consortium, being apprehensive that should this occur Japan’s isolation would impel her to seek alliance with Germany in financial and commercial matters in China, which if consummated would so influence Chinese Government that the interests of other powers in China would be seriously jeopardized.
Above repeated Embassy at London.