861.77/1583: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Chargé in Japan (Bell)

[Paraphrase]

246. Your 314, June 23, 4 p.m., was repeated to Ambassador in Great Britain with following addition:

[Here follow the last four paragraphs of telegram no. 694, June 30, to the Ambassador in Great Britain, printed supra.]

Your 312, June 22, 8 p.m. The Department has not yet taken up this matter with China. The Chinese, however, were very insistent in presenting to Lamont their wish to have the financing of the Chinese Eastern a field for consortium activity.

Davis