893.113 Manchuria/4
Memorandum by the Under Secretary of State (Phillips)
The French Chargé d’Affaires said that information had come to his government to the effect that the “Manchukuo” authorities were undertaking to buy arms and ammunition abroad. He said that his government took the position that, in view of the Postal Convention of 1933,43 it would be impossible for French arms and ammunition to be shipped to “Manchukuo”. He said that his government was basing their refusal upon this Convention. The Chargé asked me whether the Department had any knowledge of attempted purchases in this country, to which I replied in the negative and that, in my opinion, any such sales would not take place.
- Presumably a reference to the report on June 14 by the League of Nations Assembly Advisory Committee appointed pursuant to the Assembly resolution of February 24, 1933; see League of Nations, Official Journal, Special Supplement No. 113, p. 10. For text of the resolution of February 24, see Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. i, p. 113.↩