893.24/758: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in China (Johnson)
Washington, June 26, 1940—6
p.m.
109. Your 287, June 23, 11 a.m., 289, June 23, 1 p.m.,67 and 290, June 24, 9 a.m.
- 1.
- In such manner as you may deem appropriate please inform General Chiang that I look forward with pleasure to seeing Mr. T. V. Soong following his arrival in Washington and that I shall be pleased to endeavor to have arrangements made for him to call on the President.
- 2.
- Please also inform General Chiang to the effect that the Chinese Ambassador here has brought to the attention of the Department the subject of developments in and relating to Indochina68 and that I have personally given and shall continue to give those developments most careful consideration. You might also make reference to the [Page 39] comments which I made at my press conference on June 22 (see radio bulletin 149)69 at which time I referred to previous statements setting forth the views of this Government in regard to questions which had arisen in the region of the Pacific.70
Sent to Chungking. Repeated to Peiping.
Hull
- Telegram No. 289 not printed.↩
- See memorandum of June 21, p. 661.↩
- The Secretary of State dealt in part with questions relating to the Government’s policy in regard to change in the status quo of the Pacific area; recalled his statements of April 17 and May 11 concerning the Netherlands East Indies, (Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. ii, pp. 281 and 285); and, answering a further inquiry, “referred to this Government’s previous public statements and notes to governments in the Pacific area, which had given fully our views on all questions which had arisen in the Pacific” and said “he would prefer merely to call attention to these previous statements, rather than undertake at the present time to restate their substance.”↩
- In telegram No. 304, June 29, 9 a.m., the Ambassador in China reported having delivered the Department’s message orally to Generalissimo Chiang on June 28 (893.24/765).↩