Office of the Historian

793.94/7908: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Counselor of Embassy in China (Peck)

Washington, May 20, 1936—5 p.m.

34. Your 143, May 18, noon.

1.
Referring to paragraph 1 of your telegram, the Under Secretary at the press conference May 16 in response to a question whether this Government had taken any steps to determine whether Japan’s action in strengthening its garrison in North China violated the Boxer Protocol89 replied that in his opinion the Secretary’s public statement made on December 5, 1935, covers the situation.
2.
A translation of the note referred to in paragraph 4 of your telegram does not appear to have been published in the United States. It is suggested that you send by naval radio a summary of the note and forward the text by mail. However, should you consider that the complete text would be of interest to the Department at this time, please send it by naval radio.
Hull
  1. Signed at Peking, September 7, 1901, Foreign Relations, 1901, Appendix (Affairs in China), p. 312.↩