893.01 Outer Mongolia/33: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Bullitt) to the Secretary of State
[Extract]
Moscow, November 2, 1935—6
p.m.
[Received November 2—3:15 p.m.]
[Received November 2—3:15 p.m.]
472. In the course of a brief conversation today Litvinov said that he was absolutely certain that the Japanese were not contemplating any immediate advance against Outer Mongolia. He asserted that he believed the Japanese intended now to make every effort to dominate North and Central China. He said that he believed China would be compelled to fight in the near future or be extinguished as an independent nation.
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Bullitt