Office of the Historian

793.94/4164: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Shanghai (Cunningham)

Washington, February 13, 1932—2 p.m.

22. Your 45, February 13, 4 p.m. I have just received this telegram.

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Referring to paragraph 2, I desire that you endeavor at once to enlist the support of your British and French colleagues in joint or concurrent protest against the proposed landing of any of these troops in the International Settlement.35

Stimson
  1. For the Consul General’s action, see his telegram No. 48, February 14, noon, Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. i, p. 192. For the Japanese reply, see telegram No. 92, February 21, 11 a.m., ibid., p. 198.↩