793.94/8800: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Counselor of Embassy in China (Peck) at Nanking
Washington, July 21, 1937—6
p.m.
111. Your telegram No. 287, July 16, 3 p.m., paragraph 3.
The Department feels that your reply probably served a useful diplomatic purpose. However, for your own orientation the Department points out that according to the Neutrality Act that Act becomes applicable “whenever the President shall find that there exists a state of war between, or among, two or more foreign states.”
Hull