793.94/5283: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Shanghai (Cunningham)
197. Department’s 189, May 24, 6 p.m., and your 272, May 28, 2 p.m. Department appreciates the force of your arguments against endeavoring to induce, through the Japanese and Chinese members of the Joint Commission, the Japanese and Chinese Governments to make statements. Accordingly, Department desires that you drop this phase of the suggestion.
If, however, it should be decided that the issuance of a statement in a congratulatory vein by the members of the Joint Commission other than Japanese or Chinese would serve a useful purpose, the Department authorizes you to cooperate with your interested colleagues in this matter provided that such a statement is made after the complete evacuation, in accordance with the agreement of May 5, of the entire area occupied by Japanese military forces since January 28.