793.84/908: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in China (Reinsch)
Washington, July 12,
1919, 3 p.m.
For the Minister.
The Secretary of State has informally suggested to the Japanese delegates in Paris that they make open and specific declaration concerning Shantung. They replied that various considerations among which was Japanese public opinion made this inadvisable. The proposal is still receiving consideration.
Polk