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The Minister in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State
[Received 11:30 a.m.]
In a conversation yesterday Wellington Koo expressed personal desire to sound us out as to possibility of a meeting of representatives of the interested powers to settle the Shanghai question and at the same time to work out an agenda for a conference of all interested powers on all questions affecting the Far East to stabilize the situation and ensure peace in the Far East. His idea is a conference that would cover all questions outstanding, including Manchuria. He wondered whether all avenues of approach, along lines of powers’ proposals of February 2nd, have been eliminated, specifically whether the United States has dropped all effort along that line.