793.94/3659: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in China (Johnson)
Washington, January 28, 1932—5
p.m.
31. Your 131, January 27, 3 p.m., and 135, January 27, 8 p.m.
- 1.
- Department appreciates your analysis of situation and of Department’s instructions.
- 2.
- The Consul General at Shanghai should be guided by Legation’s circular No. 7, February 14, 1930.67
Department’s comments on your telegrams under reference will follow in due course.
Meanwhile, please note that section 3, subsection 8 of the circular refers to a situation which has developed, where there is an actual failure or clear unpreparedness of the Municipal Administration to give due protection, and not to a situation where such a failure is only tentatively apprehended.
Stimson
- Not printed; it circularized to consular officers in China telegram No. 47, February 5, 1930, to the Minister in China, Foreign Relations, 1930, vol. ii, p. 85.↩