793.94/10262: Telegram
The Ambassador in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State
[Received September 25—3:55 p.m.]
716. I called upon the Minister for Foreign Affairs this evening at a small residence to which he had moved to be near a bombproof. I [Page 552] found him cheerful. He again stated that he had no criticism to make of the policy of the United States Government in the present matter, his criticism being directed solely at the Neutrality Act. He expressed himself as grateful that it had not been enforced and his belief that this indicated an attitude on the part of the administration favorable to China. He told us that China had circularized signatories (except China and Japan) of Nine Power Treaty and Germany and Soviet Russia, inviting attention to indiscriminate bombing of non-combatant population.