793.94 Commission/421: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in China (Johnson)
342. Your 1169, October 6, 1 p.m. The American Government has made no public comment on the Lytton Commission’s Report. In reply to inquiries by news correspondents, I have declined to comment and have stated that this is not the time for him [me] to say anything that would make possible unwarranted comments on the activities of this Government. In conversations with various chiefs of foreign missions, I have expressed gratification over the obvious thoroughness and objectivity with which the Commission did its work.
Repeat to Nanking and communicate by mail in paraphrase to Tokyo.