Chapter V: October 1, 1933–January 5, 1934

Estimates as to unlikelihood of imminent Japanese-Soviet war, October 6; American reply to League Advisory Committee on scope of nonrecognition policy, October 23–25; Japanese press satisfaction with transfer to Atlantic of U. S. Fleet from Pacific; Foreign Commissar Litvinoff’s discussion of Far Eastern situation, November 20; Japanese reaction to American recognition of Soviet Union; likelihood of Japanese crisis in 1935; disbelief of Soviet Embassy at Tokyo of Japanese attack on Soviet Union after spring of 1934; Minister Johnson’s review of China in 1933, January 5, 1934


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

893.01 Manchuria/976: Telegram


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

893.00/12587: Telegram


[510] The Counselor of Legation in China (Peck) to the Secretary of State

793.94/6550


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

893.00/12623: Telegram

  1. Telegram in two sections.