893.102S/2476: Telegram
The Consul General at Shanghai (Lockhart) to the Secretary of State
[Received April 24—10:18 a.m.]
473. Reference final sentence of Chungking’s 151, April 24, 11 a.m., If so instructed I am prepared to inform Senior Consul that the Government of the United States acquiesces in resolution adopted by foreign ratepayers on April 17.8 As already reported in my 436, April 17, 7 p.m., names of Chinese Councilors were not inserted in the above-mentioned resolution. Notification of acquiescence will be followed in all probability by approval of practically all other consular representatives concerned and the establishment of the Provisional Council with 2 Chinese affiliated with Chungking and 2 with Nanking affiliations.
Sent to the Department, repeated to Chungking and Peiping, code text by air mail to Tokyo.
- In his unnumbered telegram of April 25, 11 a.m., to the Consul General at Shanghai, the Ambassador in China (Johnson) assented to this proposal (893.102S/2478).↩