793.94/2466: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in China (Johnson)
Washington, November 5, 1931—6
p.m.
409. Your November 4, 10 a.m.60 See Department’s 103, October 27, 5 p.m., to the American Consul at Nanking for the Minister.
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- If you deem it necessary you may instruct Peck to reply orally to the Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs as before (reference your November 2, noon).
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- For your confidential information the Department understands that the Chinese authorities have been privately advised by officials of the League, through unofficial and confidential channels, that the Chinese Government should exercise great prudence for the present in this matter inasmuch as the Council resolution of October 24 lacks binding force as unanimity was not reached.
Stimson