Office of the Historian

893.01/897: Telegram

The Ambassador in China (Gauss) to the Secretary of State

Chungking, [July 2, 1941—10 a.m.]
[Received 11:07 a.m.]

266. 1. The Chinese Foreign Office has just informed the Embassy orally that in view of the German and Italian recognition of the Nanking régime, the Chinese Government has issued instructions to its diplomatic and consular representatives in Germany and Italy to withdraw from those countries, and that it is expected that a request [Page 521] will be made today for the withdrawal from the Assembly [China?] of German and Italian diplomatic and consular representatives.

2. During the course of my courtesy call on the new Foreign Minister14 yesterday he expressed the view that the Germans and Italians in return for recognition of the Nanking régime must have exacted some quid pro quo from Japan.

Sent to the Department, repeated to Peiping and Shanghai. Shanghai please repeat to Tokyo.

Gauss
  1. Quo Tai-chi, formerly Chinese Ambassador in the United Kingdom.↩