Office of the Historian

793.94/4050: Telegram

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

Washington, February 8, 1932—6 p.m.

25. For the Minister. Your February 8, 3 p.m. Department approves.

While it assumes that problems relating to the negotiations referred [Page 253] to in its instruction of February 6, 8 p.m. to Shanghai,87 should such negotiations materialize, would be handled by Cunningham and other local officials there, the Department feels that the presence and advice of yourself and of your British colleague would greatly assist toward prompt and satisfactory solution of various of the problems outstanding in the critical situation there.

Stimson
  1. Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. i, p. 184; cf. telegram No. 56, February 6, 8 p.m., to the Chargé in Great Britain, ante, p. 242.↩