Office of the Historian

893.102 Kulangsu/134: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Consul at Amoy (MacVitty)

Washington, May 18, 1939—5 p.m.

13. Department’s 12, May 17, 7 p.m., and previous. With reference to the demands presented by the Japanese authorities to the Municipal Council mentioned in your 21, May 15, 11 a.m., there is quoted below for your confidential information and guidance pertinent portions of a telegram sent on January 11, 1938, to the Consul General at Shanghai containing broad views for the consideration of [Page 114] the Consul General in connection with the situation with which the Municipal Council of the International Settlement at Shanghai was then being confronted.

[Here follows quotation from telegram under reference, printed in Foreign Relations, 1938, volume IV, page 119.]

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