Office of the Historian

793.003/775: Telegram

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

Washington, September 24, 1931—noon.

337. Tour 614, September 21, noon, paragraph 1.4

In reply to Doctor Wang’s letter you should inform him that this Government had actually instructed you to be prepared at once to go to Nanking, but that in the light of the events of the past 5 days the conclusion has been reached that you should remain for the present where you are and you have been so instructed.

Stimson
  1. Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. i, p. 2. Par. 1 refers to Dr. Wang’s letter quoted in telegram No. 592, September 17, 1931, from the Minister in China, p. 914.↩