893.00/13760a: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in China (Johnson)
Washington, December 14, 1936—1
p.m.
79. Department desires that, unless you perceive objection (in which event you should promptly cable the Department to that effect, citing reasons), you call on the Minister for Foreign Affairs or on the Acting Chairman of the Executive Yuan, or both, and express orally, as under instruction, the American Government’s solicitude with regard to the safety of the person of Chiang Kai-shek, Chairman of the Executive Yuan.
Please inform the Department by telegram when you have carried out this instruction.
Moore