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893.76/87: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Shanghai (Gauss)

Washington, February 28, 1938—6 p.m.

176. Tour 282, February 19, 1 p.m., paragraph 2. The RCA Communications, Incorporated, has communicated to the Department a message from Shecklen stating that your assistance is essential toward causing the Japanese authorities to permit the establishment of a committee form of management for the radio station operated by the Chinese Government Radio Administration at Shanghai.

The Department desires that, having in mind the Department’s 622, December 7, 6 p.m.,75 you continue to give all appropriate informal [Page 285] assistance to the companies in their discussions with the Japanese authorities.

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  1. Not printed; it reported a conversation at the Department with Col. Manton Davis, of the Radio Corporation of America, regarding communications at Shanghai. The telegram concluded: “Colonel Davis was advised that, in view of the unusual situation at Shanghai, the Department’s attitude in general was that it would not wish to interpose objection to temporary de facto arrangements which it might be necessary or advisable to work out but that there could be no implication of official American participation in or sanction of arrangements made.” (893.73/117.)↩