793.94/8741½
Press Release Issued by the Department of State on July 12, 1937
July 12, 1937
The Japanese Ambassador and the Counselor of the Chinese Embassy each called at the Department this morning, and communicated information in regard to events in North China. In the course of the conversations which ensued both were given expression of the view that an armed conflict between Japan and China would be a great blow to the cause of peace and world progress.