793.94/8993: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Bingham)

320. Your 505, July 27, 1 p.m. Department is telegraphing Peiping and Tokyo86 instructing our Embassies there to confer immediately with the British Embassies and in their discretion to take action on lines parallel with the British action toward dissuading the Japanese authorities from proceeding with any plan for military operations which would be likely to endanger the lives of American nationals.

Please inform the Foreign Office.

Hull
  1. See telegram No. 128, July 27, 1 p.m, vol. iv, p. 238.