693.002 Manchuria/106: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in China (Johnson)
Washington, June 24, 1932—2
p.m.
173. Your 680, June 21, 8 a.m. Department does not desire that you cooperate with your Japanese colleague in exerting pressure upon Chinese Government to enter into proposed arrangements with the Manchuria régime.
For your confidential guidance but not for discussion with your Japanese colleague please see Department’s telegram 132, April 9, 5 p.m., to the American Consul at Shanghai, for the Minister.70
Please continue to keep Department fully informed of developments and of views of and action taken by your interested colleagues.
Stimson
- Telegram not printed; it reported the British Foreign Office memorandum of April 1, transmitted by the Chargé” in Great Britain in his telegram No. 126, April 1, 5 p.m., vol. iii, p. 656, and the Department’s reply, telegram No. 113, April 7, 3 p.m., ibid., p. 673.↩