893.01/760: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Spain (Weddell)
45. A secretary of the Chinese Embassy called at the Department on April 9 and stated that the Chinese Government has information that the Spanish Government, although it has no diplomatic representative [Page 317] in China, is likely to recognize shortly the Wang Ching-wei regime set up at Nanking on March 30. He asked whether this Government would be disposed to take any action looking to dissuading the Spanish Government from taking such a step. The Department desires that you take no initiative in this matter but suggests that should the subject be brought up by Spanish officials, you bring to the attention of those officials the attitude and position of this Government as set forth in the statement to the press of March 30,21 quoted in Radio Bulletin No. 76.