893.00 Nanking/159
The Chief of the Division of Far Eastern Affairs (Johnson) to the Secretary of State
Mr. Secretary: The British Ambassador ask[ed] me to say before leaving the Department he received a telephone message from Mr. Hopkinson from the Embassy to the effect that telegraphic instruction had been received from London directing the British Ambassador to suspend action in regard to the note which he presented to you this morning.63 The Ambassador stated to me that he had already presented a note to the Secretary referring to the recommendation of the Diplomatic body at Peking as to the text of a reply to Eugene Chen and indicating Great Britain’s readiness to join in such a reply if the other power[s] were ready.
- Memorandum of Apr. 18, printed supra.↩