894c.111/14: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in China (Crane)
301. Your 343, October 25, 5 p.m.
Although similar independent action by the British Legation would be welcome, it is not felt that joint action would be desirable. You may explain this to your British colleague and separately inform the Japanese Minister that this Government believes that reasons for continuance of temporary wartime passport inspection on Japanese railways in China have now ceased to exist and that it therefore desires to discontinue its temporary acquiescence in the application of Japanese passport regulations to American citizens on Japanese managed railways in China.