Office of the Historian

893.51/2764: Telegram

The Ambassador in Great Britain (Davis) to the Secretary of State2

London, April 9, 1920—noon.
[Received April 9—8:22 a.m.]

576. Your 344, April 3, 4 p.m. Although formal reply is deferred pending the receipt of a missing telegram from Tokyo, I am informally advised that it is highly improbable that the British Government will consent to provisions 1 and 2 in paragraph D and that it hopes we will postpone any action thereon until their formal reply on this point is made. I clearly infer that the Foreign Office considers that this is the last effort on the part of the Japanese who will undoubtedly recede from their position if a united stand is maintained by the other three powers. Paris informed.

Davis
  1. Repeated to the Chargé in China, Apr. 12, 3 p.m., as no. 78, with instructions to repeat to Tokyo as no. 137.↩