Office of the Historian

793.94/10231: Telegram

The Chargé in the United Kingdom (Johnson) to the Secretary of State

London, September 24, 1937—6 p.m.
[Received September 24—1:13 p.m.]

606. My 604, September 23, 5 p.m.51 The Foreign Office has informed me that Sir Robert Craigie is being instructed today to make strong representations to the Japanese against their bombing of non-military objectives and to express also the horror felt in this country at the tremendous loss of life in Canton caused by the Japanese attacks. Whether these representations will be conveyed in a note or orally to the Japanese Foreign Secretary is to be left to the discretion of the British Ambassador.

I understand that the British Embassy in Washington will be instructed to convey the foregoing to the Department and to express the hope that the United States may find possible to make similar representations.

Foreign Office officials again mentioned with expressions of satisfaction and approval the American note to Japan regarding Nanking,52 the major portion of which has been widely published here.

Johnson
  1. Not printed.↩
  2. Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. i, p. 504.↩