Office of the Historian

793.94/6082: Telegram

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

Washington, March 22, 1933—7 p.m.

92. Tientsin’s March 21, 1 p.m., and your 270, March 22, 11 a.m.72 Department assumes that you are keeping in touch with Lockhart and Department authorizes you, if and when you consider such action advisable, to take matter up with the Japanese Legation and/or to telegraph pertinent facts to Tokyo with suggestion that the Embassy at its discretion present the matter to the appropriate Japanese authorities.

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