793.94/3696: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in China (Johnson)
Washington, January 30, 1932—2
p.m.
36. Your 148, January 29, 5 p.m., last paragraph. The Department feels that, for the present at least, authorities of the International Settlement and the defense forces at Shanghai should confine their activities strictly to the maintenance of peace and order in the Settlement and other areas in which they have hitherto thus functioned.
Stimson