Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1932, The Far East, Volume IV

793.94 Commission/313: Telegram

The Minister in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State

Peiping, August 1, 1932—8 p.m.
[Received August 2—2:45 a.m.¹⁷]

883. [Paragraphs 1 through 4 of this telegram summarize material printed in the Minister’s despatch No. 1656, August 2, 1932, with enclosure of epitomized record of statements made by Count Uchida, printed in Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, volume I, pages 95–98.]

5. The above sounds to me like a well-thought-out statement of policy which the present Japanese Government is prepared to defend by force of arms and an interpretation of the application of the League Covenant, the Nine-Power Treaty and the Kellogg Pact to situations of the kind that has been created by Japanese initiative in Manchuria which will bear consideration.

Tokyo informed by mail.

Johnson

17. Telegram in two sections.