Office of the Historian

793.94/4003: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Japan (Forbes)

Washington, February 6, 1932—5 p.m.

44. Your 47, February 6, 7 p.m.71 Department is conferring with British Government and expects to be able to instruct Cunningham [Page 241] that, if asked by the Japanese, he shall cooperate.72

For the moment, you should refrain from expressing to the Japanese Government any views with regard to its project. If asked for information, you should simply say that you have transmitted the information given you and that Department informs you that the matter is being given its careful attention. Above all, avoid giving the Japanese ground for any impression that we view with equanimity their sending army reinforcements to Shanghai and their intention expressed to you to land such within International Settlement boundary.

Stimson
  1. Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. i, p. 183.↩
  2. See telegram No. 3, February 6, 8 p.m., to the Consul General at Shanghai, Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. i, p. 184.↩