Office of the Historian

793.94/3661: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Consul at Geneva (Gilbert)

Washington, January 28, 1932—noon.

30. Your 38, January 26, 9 p.m.63 Inform Cecil as strictly confidential to himself that, before receiving the information contained in [Page 86] paragraph 5 of your telegram under reference, your Government had instructed the American Ambassador, Tokyo,64 to urge upon the Japanese Foreign Office the importance of the situation at Shanghai in relation to international interests and world peace. Also, that the Secretary of State has noted with interest and appreciation the position which Cecil has taken, as reported in your paragraph 4, in support of the position of the United States in regard to the Manchuria question.

Stimson
  1. Not printed.↩
  2. See telegram No. 25, January 27, 2 p.m., Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. i, p. 161.↩