793.94/11774: Telegram
The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 23—9:55 a.m.]
672. Reference Department’s 367, December 21, 7 p.m.,49 area free of attack at Hankow. Upon receipt on December 15 of Ambassador Johnson’s telegram 33 of December 13, 4 p.m., I left with the Foreign Office a memorandum dated December 15th quoting Ambassador Johnson’s proposal and requesting the Foreign Office to take appropriate action in support thereof.
On December 18 the British and the German Embassies took similar action on the same proposal. The French Ambassador on the same day made representations regarding French shipping in the [Yangtze?] and the French Concession in Hankow. He will on the first opportunity support the general proposal. The Italian Embassy stated today that it associated itself with the proposal and would make appropriate representations tomorrow morning.
Repeated to Hankow.
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