Office of the Historian

393.1163 Free Methodist/36: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Counselor of Embassy in China (Lockhart), at Peiping

Washington, October 13, 1939—6 p.m.

230. Your 538, October 11, 5 p.m. Please repeat your telegram under reference to Tokyo by telegraph.

Please also suggest to Tokyo, as from the Department, that, in view of the Embassy’s previous representations on the general subject of the effect upon Americans of Japanese-sponsored anti-foreign agitation in China, this matter, unless the Embassy at Tokyo perceives objection, be brought to the attention of the Japanese Foreign Office.72

Sent to Peiping. Repeated to Hankow.

Hull
  1. Oral representations were made to the Japanese Foreign Office on October 18.↩