793.94/5555: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in China (Johnson)
320. 1. The British Secretary for Foreign Affairs having expressed to the American Ambassador at London5 an interest in receiving information with regard to the possibility of Sino-Japanese armed hostilities in the Peiping-Tientsin area, the Department has handed to the British Embassy a memorandum,6 and has telegraphed to the Embassy at London for use, in discretion, in conversation with the British Secretary for Foreign Affairs, a condensation thereof giving the information reported by you in this regard and outlining the Department’s views as to certain possible steps which the Department believes might advantageously be taken by non-disputant interested powers.
Pertinent portion of text of telegram follows:
[Telegram No. 245, September 16, 1932, to the Ambassador in Great Britain not printed.]
2. Communicate this in paraphrase by mail to Tokyo.