793.94/4476: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Shanghai (Cunningham)
60. For the Minister. Your February 29, 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Wilson has informed me from Geneva of a project which the Council has under consideration in support of the plan for a conference on cessation of hostilities. I have authorized the association of this Government with the project, but with express stipulations that advantage is not to be taken of the present situation to advance proposals which would be unfair to either side or which would involve the seeking of special advantages for Japan and/or the other foreign powers, that the whole matter shall be without prejudice to any position which has hitherto been taken by the League or by any power in relation to the current dispute between China and Japan, and that at the proposed conference, if and when held, there must be present civil officials of the powers represented.
Please keep me posted as fully as possible with regard to developments in relation to this project.