Office of the Historian

893.811/925: Telegram

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

Peiping, April 20, 1934—noon.
[Received April 20—7:28 a.m.]

184. Department’s 87, March 1 [31], 4 p.m. and my 168, April 14, noon.29 French Chargé d’Affaires informs me that French Government feels that a protest addressed to the Japanese authorities would seem to imply the recognition of a privileged situation for Japan in Manchuria and suggests that oral protest should be made by the foreign consular authorities concerned to the local “Manchukuo” authorities concerned.

I have not yet learned British Government’s reaction.

Johnson
  1. Telegram No. 168 not printed; it reported communication of Department’s views expressed in No. 87 to representatives of Great Britain, France, and Germany. See also footnote 23, p. 109.↩