893.102S/2473: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in China (Johnson)
Washington, April 23,
1941—5 p.m.
86. Your 144, April 19, 4 p.m., and Department’s 84, April 21, 7 p.m.
- 1.
- With regard to paragraph numbered 3 of your telegram under reference it seems to the Department that where there are conflicting claims in regard to membership in the Council, it is necessary for the Council to decide what persons it will accept and deal with as members.
- 2.
- This Government earnestly hopes that the Chinese Government will in its own interests, as well as in the interests of all concerned, refrain from any action tending to jeopardize the provisional arrangement approved on April 17 by the foreign ratepayers at Shanghai. You are authorized to communicate the substance of this paragraph to the Chinese Government as from this Government.
Sent to Chungking. Repeated to Peiping and Shanghai. Shanghai please mail code text to Tokyo.
Hull