Office of the Historian

693.943/5: Telegram

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

Washington, April 1, 1936—noon.

70. Reference Dairen’s despatch of February 26 addressed to Embassy at Tokyo27 in regard to reported tariff agreement between the authorities of the “autonomous” area of North China and those of Japan.

Department assumes that you are already studying the situation under reference and that in due course you will inform the Department of the results of your investigation.28

Hull
  1. Not printed.↩
  2. See telegram No. 215, April 30, 11 a.m., from the Ambassador in China, p. 126.↩