Office of the Historian

124.9318/187: Telegram

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

Washington, June 18, 1935—7 p.m.

170. Your 279, June 15, 2 p.m.24 The Department in reply to inquiries [Page 701] from the press has stated that there has been no consideration nor discussion here in regard to the removal of American troops from Peiping and Tientsin.

There has been no press inquiry in regard to the removal of the Legation.25

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  1. Not printed.↩
  2. See section entitled, “Raising of the American Legation in China to the Status of Embassy and Abolition of the Consulate General at Nanking,” pp. 508 ff.↩