Office of the Historian

793.94/10137: Telegram

The Ambassador in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State

Nanking, September 19, 1937—11 a.m.
[Received 1:15 p.m.]

685. During my conversation with the Minister for Foreign Affairs yesterday he asked me to say to you that he hoped that the United States would be represented at least as an observer when the League takes up China’s appeal in regard to Sino-Japanese hostilities.

Johnson