793.94/5734: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Chargé in Great Britain (Atherton)
Washington, January 13, 1933—7
p.m.
13. Your No. 6, January 10, 7 p.m.
- 1.
- Upon receipt of your telegram under reference, the Department informed the Minister at Peiping briefly of the attitude of the British Government and stated that it assumed that the Minister’s British colleague could inform him more fully with regard thereto.
- 2.
- With regard to the course of action suggested by the diplomatic representatives at Peiping, the Department on January 9 informed the Minister at Peiping inter alia that it would await an approach from the British Government and that the Minister should so inform his British colleague stating that we were ready to cooperate in discussion and to consider sympathetically any definite proposal from the British Government for action of a character in which that Government might place confidence and for the initiation of which it or the League of Nations might be willing to assume the responsibility.
- 3.
- As the Department assumes that the British Chargé at Peiping has informed his Government of the Department’s attitude, there would appear to be no need for you to make reply to the Foreign Office memorandum, although you may wish to make a statement as per paragraph 2 above, orally.
Stimson