861.77 Chinese Eastern/534: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Chargé in France (Armour)
394. Your 540, December 1, 1 p.m. You may inform French Foreign Office that I shall be very glad for my part to delay publication until the morning of Tuesday, December 3, and have already made arrangements to that end. You should say however that we have sent communications to Tokyo, London, Berlin and Rome similar to those sent to you and that there is possibility that news will break at any one of those places. Department however is informing those points of delay here.
I cannot delay the message to the Chinese Government as it has already gone. I of course have no objection to French Government communicating message to Russian Government simultaneously with message of their own. I hope however that message will be transmitted on Monday.