893.01 Manchuria/25: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Minister in China (Johnson)

80. Your 312, March 8, 11 a.m.

1.
Department has telegraphed the Consul General at Harbin64 directly that he should not attend congratulatory celebration and should file without acknowledgment any official invitation received from the new regime.
2.
Please inform Consul General at Mukden that Department approves his attitude toward invitation to attend inauguration of the executive at Changchun and that he should file invitation without acknowledgment.
3.
Inform Minister.
Stimson
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