393.11/2008: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Shanghai (Gauss)
Washington, August 17, 1937—3
p.m.
239. Your 495, August 16, 4 p.m.
- 1.
- I greatly appreciate the splendid work which you and your staff and other agencies of the American Government associated with you are doing in handling the tremendously difficult problems of a delicate and burdensome emergency situation. Please inform your staff and other agencies of this.
- 2.
- I am in thorough agreement with the steps which you have taken.
- 3.
- We are taking up with the American steamship companies and appropriate agencies of the Government the questions involved in connection with the action which the Commander-in-Chief and you have taken in directing the diverting of American ships for the purpose of providing facilities for American women and children to leave Shanghai. We expect to make appropriate arrangements.
- 4.
- With regard to paragraph 7, second sentence, of your telegram under reference, we have initiated urgently steps toward obtaining funds to cover emergencies and hope to inform you soon of availability.
Hull