Office of the Historian

693.002/624: Telegram

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

Washington, May 6, 1938—4 p.m.

144. Your 227, May 2, 4 p.m., Chinese Maritime Customs. On May 3 the Chinese Embassy at Washington left with the Department a memorandum87 summarizing the arrangement arrived at between the British Ambassador to Japan and the Japanese Foreign Office, and on May 5 a memorandum87 containing the text of a note verb die communicated to the British Foreign Office by the Chinese Embassy at London and containing an account of personal observations made by the Chinese Ambassador at London to Leith-Ross.88 The Department assumes that the substance of these communications is known to you. Copies of the two memoranda are being forwarded by pouch.

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  3. Sir Frederick Leith-Ross, chief economic adviser to the British Government.↩