Office of the Historian

793.94/3757: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Nanking (Peck)

Washington, January 31, 1932—8 p.m.

10. Your number 20, January 30, 6 p.m. You should call upon the Minister for Foreign Affairs immediately and, as under instructions from the Department, inform him that the American Government strongly urges that the Chinese Government exercise the utmost forbearance and self-restraint in connection with the situation at Shanghai. You may say that the American Government is doing its utmost to the end that the International Settlement shall not be involved in the dispute between China and Japan, and that any troop operations against the Settlement would be objected to by the American Government and would inevitably aggravate an already serious situation.

For your information: We have made strong representations in Tokyo.9

Stimson
  1. See telegram No. 31, January 31, 2 p.m., Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. i, p. 171.↩