793.94/8532: Telegram
The Counselor of Embassy in China (Lockhart) to the Secretary of State
Peiping, March 11, 1937—5
p.m.
[Received March 11—6:55 a.m.]
[Received March 11—6:55 a.m.]
89. Reference paragraph 1 Embassy’s 54, February 8, 5 p.m. and subsequent telegrams.
[Page 39]- 1.
- Sung Che Yuan returned March 9 to Peiping from Tientsin. The subject of his conversations with Japanese while there is still a matter of speculation.
- 2.
- Sung is reported to have said in an interview granted March 10 to Chinese pressmen that he would continue to follow his policy of supporting the National Government, that the development of economic resources would be guided by the principles of environments, reciprocity, and mutual prosperity, that mines would be developed first and then railways, and that he would continue to oppose communism.
By mail to Tokyo.
Lockhart