Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1937, The Far East, Volume IV

793.94/10141: Telegram

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

Washington, September 19, 1937—2 p.m.

250. Department has repeated Shanghai’s 728, September 19, 1 p.m.⁴² to Tokyo with request that Ambassador make immediate representations in regard to the safety of the American Embassy and American nationals at Nanking.⁴³

Hull

42. Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. i, p. 499.
43. For report of representations, see memorandum by the Ambassador in Japan, September 20, ibid., p. 500.