793.94/13416: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Shanghai (Lockhart)
Washington, July 13, 1938—4
p.m.
438. Your 972, July 9, 5 p.m., in regard to proposed proclamation by the Shanghai Municipal Council aimed at suppression of terrorist activities.
- 1.
- The Department approves your refusal to accept proposed proclamation as applying to American nationals.
- 2.
- The Department perceives no objection to your acquiescence, as a member of the Shanghai Consular Body and in consultation and agreement with your interested colleagues, in the issuance of the [Page 223] proposed proclamation subject to the reservation that it shall not apply to extraterritorial nationals.
Hull