793.94/4007: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Nanking (Peck)
Washington, February 6, 1932—8
p.m.
23. For the Minister. Your February 6, 4 p.m.
- 1.
- The Department refers to its telegrams to you No. 30, January 28, noon; No. 35, January 30, 1 p.m.; its telegram to American Consul, Shanghai, for you, dated January 31, 8 p.m.;76 its telegram to the American Consul, Nanking, January 31, 8 p.m., and its telegram to the American Consul, Shanghai, February 3, 11 p.m., which was to be repeated to Nanking.
- 2.
- In your contacts with the Foreign Office and other Chinese officials, the Department trusts that you have made use of the information contained in the Department’s instructions above referred to, and others, at least to the extent to which the information contained therein, for your confidential information, has become a matter of common knowledge through the press.
- 3.
- In the meantime, the Department has also been engaged in an exchange of views with the other interested governments to the end that the situation at Shanghai might be relieved, as evidenced by the Department’s instruction to Nanking No. 12, February 1, 3 p.m., and the instructions which are being sent to Shanghai today to the same end.
- 4.
- You may in your discretion formulate your reply to the notes of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, dated February 5,77 on the basis of the telegrams referred to in paragraph 1 of this instruction; and you may assure the Minister that this Government, together with the other [Page 245] interested governments, is giving the matter referred to in his communications its continuous and most solicitous consideration.
Stimson