Office of the Historian

861.77/2344: Telegram

The Ambassador in Japan (Warren) to the Secretary of State

[Extract]
Tokyo, December 5, 1921—1 p.m.
[Received December 9—9:06 a.m.]

413. My 410, December 6, 11 a.m. Following from Caldwell dated December 7, 9 p.m.: [Page 613]

“Supplementing my 9, December 3, 9 p.m. I have received written statement from Minister for Foreign Affairs confirming his verbal statement that officially he considers that only Soviet Russia and China and to some extent Far Eastern Republic have a right to arrange such matters as international control of Chinese Eastern Railway … [”]

Warren