893.5045/156: Telegram
The Ambassador in Great Britain (Houghton) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 4—12:11 p.m.]
245. Embassy’s 236, July 30, 11 a.m. Foreign Office note just received states French, Japanese, and Italian Governments have agreed in principle to the establishment of judicial inquiry and concludes:
“I should be grateful if United States representatives at Brussels, Copenhagen, The Hague, Lisbon, Madrid, Stockholm and Oslo be instructed to support their British colleagues in expressing the hope to the Foreign Offices of these powers concerned that their respective representatives at Peking be instructed to agree to the establishment of the inquiries.”
Similar Foreign Office note has been addressed to French, Japanese, and Italian Ambassadors here.
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