Office of the Historian

793.003/481: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Minister in China (Johnson)

Washington, December 27, 1930—6 p.m.

448. For the Minister: Reference to Department’s No. 445, December 24, 7 p.m.93

Department has handed to the Chinese Legation this day a memorandum in reply to the Chinese Legation’s memorandum of December 19.

Although the Chinese Legation has informed the Department that the text of the memorandum will probably be cabled to Nanking tonight, you should inform the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the above and hand him informally a memorandum giving this text.

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[Here follows text of memorandum printed supra.]

You may inform your most interested colleagues of the general tenor of the memorandum. Department will inform the Embassy at London for communication to the British Foreign Office.

Stimson
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