Office of the Historian

893.00/12095: Telegram

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

Peiping, August 8, 1932—4 p.m.
[Received August 8—6:24 a.m.]

914. Following from American Consul General at Nanking:

“August 7, noon. My August 7, 11 a.m. Lo Wen-kan told me over the telephone that Wang19 had resigned because Marshal Chang would not resist Japanese invasion and that he, Lo, entirely sided with Wang. He referred me to published telegrams of Wang for full explanation of the present controversy. In recent conversation with me Lo bitterly criticized Chiang Kai-shek. Appearances are that the present Government will be disrupted over the question of ‘resistance or non-resistance’.”

Repeated to Tokyo.

Johnson
  1. Wang Ching-wei, President of the Executive Yuan (Premier). His resignation was rejected on August 22, 1932, but Vice President T. V. Soong was selected to be Acting President of the Executive Yuan.↩