393.1115/931: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in China (Johnson)
249. Your 672, September 17, 3 p.m., and supplementing Department’s 217, September 6, 4 p.m., and 233, September 11, 4 p.m. The Department has been informed that copies of its letter addressed to [Page 339] the International Missionary Council in regard to evacuation have been communicated to all Protestant mission organizations in the United States having missionaries in China; that there was held in New York on September 8 a meeting of the representatives of mission boards having headquarters in New York, including a representative of the American Board, of Boston, at which meeting this matter was considered; and that a statement representing the consensus of judgment of those present was prepared and sent to all mission organizations in the United States. The Department therefore feels that the matter of evacuation has been placed before all mission organizations and that at this time no further action on the Department’s part is necessary.
According to the tenor of messages which have been received from mission boards for transmission by the Department to their organizations in China, it is noted that the mission boards are taking action in general along lines suggested by the Department.