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
[Received December 19—7 a.m.]
893.01 Manchuria/976: Telegram
[509] The Minister in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 20—7:52 a.m.]
893.00/12587: Telegram
[510] The Counselor of Legation in China (Peck) to the Secretary of State
[Received January 29, 1934.]
793.94/6550
- Telegram in two sections.↩