Office of the Historian

793.94/5023: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Consul General at Shanghai (Cunningham)

Washington, April 14, 1932—5 p.m.

141. For the Minister. Your April 12, 5 p.m. Department heartily approves your decision to remain at Shanghai as per last sentence your telegram under reference and last sentence Department’s 122, March 29, 6 p.m.62 In view of latest press despatches regarding Japanese diplomatic action at Shanghai and developments at Geneva, it is believed that your departure from Shanghai should not coincide with or too closely follow that of the British Minister.

Therefore, in case you find it necessary for prompt and effective carrying out of instruction contained in Department’s 140, April 13, [Page 694] 6 p.m.,63 to go to Nanking, you should in advance give out a press statement that you are going to Nanking on the Baker case and that you will return to Shanghai within a few days.

Castle
  1. Not printed.↩
  2. Vol. iv, p. 489.↩