793.94/15367: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in China (Johnson)
170. Your 523, September 10, 10 a.m. The Department has telegraphed Ambassador Bullitt at Paris a paraphrase of the message contained in your telegram under reference and has added 2 additional paragraphs of comment which are quoted for your information and guidance, as follows:
“We are informing Johnson that we have transmitted this message but are asking him to discourage the author from requesting any repetition of such use of our channels.
For your further information, we find both the Chinese and the Japanese Governments constantly seeking to convey by indirect routes or unofficial channels, and often by both, views and inquiries and suggestions which we feel should, so far as we are concerned, be communicated by them to us directly, if at all. It is our policy to discourage, of course tactfully and always with possible exception in the light of circumstances, such procedure.”