793.94/2866: Telegram
The Chargé in France (Shaw) to the Secretary of State
[Received 6:06 p.m.]
794. From Ambassador Dawes: This evening Sze informs me that at 2:30 p.m. today a telegram was received from his Government and presumably was sent prior to the receipt of any information on the American attitude concerning the Council resolution; the telegram states the minimum conditions of China as follows:
- (1)
- Japan’s immediate cessation of hostilities.
- (2)
- Withdrawal of Japanese troops within a definite but short period.
- (3)
- Supervision by the inquiry commission or by neutral observers of the evacuation.
The foregoing are declared as essential, otherwise the inquiry commission would be absolutely unacceptable. The Chinese Government suggests also that if the scope of the commission’s investigation is extended to China proper as well as to Manchuria, then it might be extended also to Japan and Korea. [Dawes.]