Office of the Historian

893.0146/893a: Telegram

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

Washington, November 6, 1941—7 p.m.

259. Public announcement will be made in Washington shortly that the Government of the United States is giving consideration to the question of withdrawal of the American Marine detachments now maintained ashore in China at Peiping, Tientsin, and Shanghai.76

Sent to Chungking. Repeated to Shanghai and Peiping.

Hull
  1. The Department on November 7 informed the Ambassadors in China and Japan (telegrams No. 261 and No. 722, respectively) that a White House press release state d: “The President said today that the Government of the United States is giving consideration to the question of withdrawal of the American Marine detachments now maintained ashore in China at Peiping, Tientsin, and Shanghai.” (893.0146/894a, 894b)↩