893.01 Manchuria/654
The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Nanking to the Chinese Legation33
Mr. T. V. Soong, Acting President of the Executive Yuan, and Mr. Lo Wen-Kan, Minister of Foreign Affairs, received the diplomatic representatives of the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy at Mr. Soong’s residence this morning. It is learned that in the course of the conversation Mr. Soong discredited the rumor assiduously circulated by Japanese agents that there is a growing tendency for the Chinese Government to favor direct negotiations with Japan. Mr. Soong drily remarked that the same rumor had been repeated whenever the Manchurian issue received serious attention in Geneva. He added that the issue was now squarely up to the League which had to decide upon not only the future of the Three Eastern Provinces, but also the principle of the sanctity of treaties and the very existence of the League itself.
- Copy of telegram transmitted to the Department by the Chinese Legation, November 26, 1932.↩