124.93/334: Telegram

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

210. Reference your 415, August 25, 1 p.m. Department’s 204, August 22, 1 p.m., was for your information and guidance and should not be construed as implying anything not stated in its text. It gives you in the first three numbered paragraphs new and latest information and was occasioned by the developments reported in its paragraph 1 and in the fifth and following words of its paragraph 3. Please reread carefully, especially first sentence of paragraph 3 and last sentence of paragraph 4, the latter of which sentences applies to all that precedes it in that telegram. See also Department’s 209, August 28, 4 p.m.

Department is glad to have all the information given in your telegram under reference.

Hull