Office of the Historian

793.94/5477: Telegram

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

Peiping, August 9, 1932—4 p.m.
[Received August 9—6:30 a.m.]

921. Your 242, August 6, 3 p.m. Subject matter my 904, August 6, 10 a.m., given to colleagues this morning. It was suggested that we would find it difficult to refuse to consider the question if the Chinese were seriously to propose neutralization of Peiping but all agreed that it would be dangerous to consider the question without knowing more of the plans of both sides.

Johnson