861.77 Chinese Eastern/670: Telegram
The Minister in Austria (Washburn) to the Secretary of State
[Received 5:22 p.m.]
44. My telegram No. 42, December 6, 4 p.m. The following is text of memorandum this day received:
“The Federal Government has followed with great interest and full sympathy the steps taken by the Government of the United States in its efforts to settle the present conflict between the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics and China by the methods prescribed in the anti-war pact accepted by both parties to the dispute.
If in the course of these endeavors the Government of the United States, jointly with a few other governments, recently undertook a démarche in Moscow and Nanking in order to remind both parties to the dispute of the duties arising from the above-mentioned pact, the Federal Government is fully convinced that the motive of these steps [Page 419] was to take all measures to the end that in this first great international conflict since the coming into force of the Pact of Paris the high ideals of the pact should find their practical application and thus the prestige of the pact and thereby also its political efficacy in the service of the world peace be assured and intensified.”
Should the Department desire to give publicity to the contents of this memorandum the Austrian Government has no objection.