Office of the Historian

861.77 Chinese Eastern/589

The Minister in Canada (Phillips) to the Secretary of State

Ottawa, December 2, 1929.
[Received December 5.]
No. 1224

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt today of the Department’s circular telegraphic instruction of December 1, 6 [4] p.m., instructing the Legation immediately to communicate orally to the Minister for Foreign Affairs a statement regarding the Sino-Russian situation in its relation to the Pact of Paris for the renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy.

I personally communicated the substance of the telegraphic instruction to the Prime Minister within two hours of the time when decoding was finished. The Prime Minister stated that he approved of the idea and would immediately take the matter under consideration. He added that he would wish to communicate regarding it with the British Government before making a final decision, since there had already been exchanges between London and Ottawa on the subject.

Any further developments will be promptly reported to the Department.

I have [etc.]

For the Minister:
B. Reath Riggs

First Secretary of Legation