Office of the Historian

793.94 Commission/319a: Telegram

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

Washington, August 11, 1932—2 p.m.

252. From Hornbeck. Referring to your personal letter of June 29, penultimate paragraph,23 and especially the last sentence of that paragraph.

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I have brought your view and this information to the attention of the Secretary. He authorizes me to say that in case occasion should arise for repeating and emphasizing the view which you expressed, you may discreetly and in confidence make known in appropriate quarters that it is his considered view that the greatest potential usefulness of the report will be achieved in the field of statement and analysis of facts, complete, unbiased and thoroughly objective.

Stimson
  1. See supra.↩