762.93 Manchuria/16: Telegram (part air)

The Ambassador in Germany ( Wilson ) to the Secretary of State

241. The semi-official German news agency released this afternoon the following announcement:

“Carrying out the declaration of Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor in his Reichstag speech of February 20 of this year that Germany would recognize Manchukuo, a treaty was signed on the 12th of this month in the Foreign Office by Secretary of State Baron von Weiz-saecker and the Trade Commissioner of Manchukuo.

The treaty stipulates the immediate assumption of diplomatic and consular relations between the two States and provides further for the early beginning of negotiations regarding a consular, trade and shipping treaty”.

Wilson