793.94/5916: Telegram
The Minister in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State
Peiping, February 23, 1933—10
a.m.
[Received February 23—2:05 a.m.]
[Received February 23—2:05 a.m.]
175. Reuter from Nanking, 22d.
“When interviewed regarding suggestion made abroad that there should be an arms embargo in regard to China and Japan, spokesman of the Foreign Office said it should be confined to Japan alone if it was imposed at all. He declared China was acting in self-defense while Japan was waging an aggressive war and to treat the two countries similarly in this matter would be not only unjust but tantamount to assistance [for] Japan who already was armed to the teeth.”
Johnson