Office of the Historian

393.115/242: Telegram

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

Washington, April 13, 1938—6 p.m.

105. Your 225, April 12, 4 p.m., paragraph 3. In view of the character of the Japanese “note” and the manner of its delivery and in view of the fact that the Japanese Government has already been fully informed of the position of the American Government, you should not, unless subsequently instructed to the contrary, make any acknowledgment or reply to the Japanese Embassy. Reference is made in this connection to Department’s 63, February 18, 5 p.m., to Tokyo, repeated to Hankow in Department’s 76, February 18, 5 p.m.,98 as well as to the Department’s 7, January 7, 7 p.m.99

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  1. Not printed; but see note of February 21, from the Ambassador in Japan to the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. i, p. 586.↩
  2. Ibid., p. 564.↩