793.94/3444: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Nanking (Peck)
3. Your 4, January 8, 2 p.m., and 5, January 8, 5 p.m. This Government’s note of January 7 envisages provisions of all treaties by virtue of which the United States has rights in and with regard to [Page 18] Manchuria. Without making any commitment, either affirmative or negative, with regard to its future course of action, which course will depend on developments, the Department perceives at present no immediate occasion for calling a conference and believes that it would not be opportune under existing circumstances to propose that step.
You may so inform Foreign Minister orally and Department will so inform Chinese Minister here.
Repeat to Peiping as Dept’s No. 8.