793.94/7948: Telegram
The Chargé in France (Wilson) to the Secretary of State
[Received June 12—6:08 a.m.]
489. Following is reported as of possible interest to the Far Eastern Division. An officer of the Embassy in conversation with an officer of Chinese Embassy here who is an old friend was informed that Koo26 was under instructions to sound out the representatives of the principally interested powers at Geneva as to their reaction should the National Government be forced by the action of Canton to go to war with Japan. The informant expressed firm conviction that the National Government would fight Japan rather than engage in civil war with Canton and said that every effort was now being made to restrain Canton until the reaction of the interested powers could be ascertained.
Repeated to Geneva.
- V. K. Wellington Koo, Chinese Ambassador in France.↩