793.94/4696a: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Switzerland (Wilson), at Geneva
42. At the press conference this morning the question was asked, presumably on the basis of newspaper reports, whether the United States was planning to take the 31st infantry out of Shanghai and the answer was made that we have no present intention of withdrawing the 31st infantry and that the question of withdrawal is not under consideration.
You may so inform inquirers.
For your confidential information and guidance, in case such reports are brought to your attention and questions are asked by responsible persons: some discussion of such a possible move appears to have been indulged in by some American authorities in the Far East.