500.A15a3/771: Telegram
The Ambassador in Japan (Castle) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received March 22—4:31 a.m.]
54. Your telegram No. 53, March 20, 5 p.m. I think that there is no danger that this matter will arise unless it is mentioned in the press. The Government here has not considered it, so Shidehara tells me; one reason is that it would scarcely be possible to arrive at a formula by which China would not be irritated. We are not more sensitive than he is on this point. He was told that, despite anything the press might say, we should always consider the Kellogg Pact as effective as in any other connection so far as China was concerned and that there was no necessity of committing this to paper. Please repeat to London.91
- Transmitted to the American delegation as Department’s telegram No. 242, March 22, 10 a.m.↩