Office of the Historian

893.51/6400: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Bingham)

Washington, June 24, 1937—5 p.m.

259. Your 394, June 21, 2 p.m. Please avail yourself of an early opportunity to express to the Foreign Office this Government’s appreciation of the action of the British Government in furnishing us with the memorandum on the subject of Chinese-British discussions in regard to British financial assistance to China, and you may inform the Foreign Office that this Government shares the view of the British Government that there should be close consultation between the governments principally concerned.

With reference to the penultimate and final paragraphs of your telegram, the Department will be interested in receiving information concerning the memorandum which Yoshida plans to present to the British Government.

Please review Department’s 236, June 11, 4 p.m.79

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