793.94/3650: Telegram
The Minister in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State
Peiping, January 27, 1932—8
p.m.
[Received January 27—10:05 a.m.]
[Received January 27—10:05 a.m.]
135. Your telegram No. 26, January 25.
- 1.
- My British colleague left Peiping this morning for England via Siberia. Chargé d’Affaires Ingram is in Nanking in connection with meeting of Council of the League of Nations. There is, therefore, no one here with whom I can discuss this question.
- 2.
- I telegraphed my own views in my telegram 131, January 27.
- 3.
- I believe powers interested should call upon Japan to control her own people in the International Settlement (which is what I understand Chairman of the Municipal Council was asking Japanese to do) and leave Municipal Council and its forces to deal with Chinese policy.
- 4.
- Insofar as Japanese were threatening to take independent action against Chinese within the Settlement (if they did so threaten) we should make protest at Tokyo against such threats and such actions.
- 5.
- But I think we should move warily lest we find ourselves involved on the one side or the other in a quarrel not our own.
Johnson