Office of the Historian

893.102S/1797: Telegram

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

Shanghai, May 12, 1939—2 p.m.
[Received May 12—8:30 a.m.]

375. For Hornbeck.47 Stirling Fessenden, Secretary General of the Municipal Council, has asked me to send you the following message.

“Possibility violent Japanese action against International Settlement. Strongly urge if possible public statement by State Department that any such act would be regarded as unfriendly to American Government.”

Gauss
  1. Stanley K. Hornbeck, Adviser on Political Relations.↩