393.115 Radio Corporation of America/3½: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Shanghai (Cunningham)
Washington, January 27, 1932—5
p.m.
Your January 25, 3 p.m.
- 1.
- Please bring urgently and orally to the attention of the Japanese Consul General, as under instruction from the Department, that information received by you and by the Department (without reference to the source of such information) indicates that Japanese armed forces may have in contemplation activities in territory near the International Settlement including areas in which radio transmitting and receiving stations are located; that obviously such activities may endanger these stations and jeopardize communications service; that the Radio Corporation of America has a substantial interest in the radio transmitting station at Chenju; that the Shanghai circuit of the Radio Corporation is carrying a substantial portion of communications traffic with China; and that the revenue received by the Corporation from this circuit is substantial in amount. You should state that the American Government is seriously concerned over the possibility of injury to substantial American interests and would greatly regret any interference with channels of communication to and from Shanghai. You may add that the American Government sincerely hopes that the reported intent of the Japanese military has no basis in fact.
- 2.
- The Department is also instructing the Ambassador at Tokyo to take this matter up immediately with the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs.
- 3.
- Repeat to Peiping.
Stimson