793.94/6594
The Minister in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State
[Received April 21.]
Sir: I have the honor to forward a copy of a memorandum13 of a conversation which I had on March 24, 1934, with General Huang Fu, Chairman of the Peiping Political Affairs Readjustment Committee, on the subjects of Sino-Japanese relations and conditions in China.
General Huang said that the situation in North China was not entirely without danger as the Japanese were continually “pressing for this and that” but that there was evidence of Japanese efforts to assuage the situation, as, for example, the stationing at Dolonor, Chahar Province, of only a Japanese captain and a few men, press reports of large troop concentration notwithstanding, and the decreasing of the number of people active about the Japanese headquarters in Tientsin. He believes that Japan can never succeed in Manchuria and that Manchuria will never really solve Japan’s population problem because the increasing Chinese population there will be more than sufficient to consume its resources. General Huang Fu was pessimistic with regard to the possibility of such leaders as Generals Chen Chi-t’ang, Yen Hsi-shan, and Han Fu-chu uniting in active support of the Central Government.
Respectfully yours,
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