Office of the Historian

693.002 Manchuria/65: Telegram

The Ambassador in Great Britain (Mellon) to the Secretary of State

London, June 6, 1932—5 p.m.
[Received June 6—12:25 p.m.]

197. Was informed at Foreign Office that information contained in Department’s 169, June 4, 1 p.m.,45 had been made available to Sir John Simon by Ambassador Lindley. Chief of Far Eastern Department also added that Ambassador Lindley on his own initiative had made representations (which subsequently received approval of Sir John Simon) to Tokyo Foreign Office regarding the anticipated violation of Maritime Customs, stating in particular that if this revenue seizure occurred it would bring a deluge of protests from foreign governments which up to the present had not happened. Tokyo Foreign Office replied that Ambassador Lindley’s remarks would be conveyed to the appropriate authorities of the Manchurian régime.

Mellon
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