Office of the Historian

393.1115/3173: Telegram

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

Washington, May 14, 1938—2 p.m.

318. Your 658, May 13,7 p.m. Department approves your proposed action and suggests that in drafting your reply you also be guided by the ante-penultimate paragraph of the Department’s 63, February 18, 5 p.m.16

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