793.94/7557: Telegram
The Ambassador in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 21—7:12 a.m.]
240. Following from Nanking:
“December 20, 11 a.m. The Japanese Ambassador informed me this morning that he had his anticipated conversation with Chiang Kai-shek yesterday but that they did not go into the details of pending issues. The Ambassador said, however, that Chiang Kai-shek would continue the international policy announced by Wang Ching-wei in January last. From other sources I am reliably informed that [Page 494] the Ambassador expressed the disappointment of the Japanese Government that the good effect anticipated from the recent changes in North China had been marred by the action of the Chinese authorities in permitting recrudescence of student agitation and that the Ambassador said that while the Japanese Government intended to continue a policy of friendly cooperation with China it reserved liberty to act as circumstances might dictate.”