Office of the Historian

793.94119/418: Telegram

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

Hankow, May 3, 1938—noon.
[Received May 3—8:20 a.m.]

232. Department’s 124, April 13, 7 p.m.37 Counselor [of] British Embassy informed me today in the course of a conversation that question of mediation had been recently canvassed by the British Government, but that conclusion had been reached that mediation was out of the question as there was no basis upon which mediation could be profitably offered to either side.

Johnson
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