Office of the Historian

793.94/6229: Telegram

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

Peiping, April 26, 1933—5 p.m.
[Received April 26—7:37 a.m.]

377. Department’s 133, April 25, and my 369, April 25, 11 p.m. I saw my British colleague this morning and we are agreed that situation revealed by statements of Chiang Monlin as reported in my 357, April 22, 8 p.m., and more recent statement of Vice Minister Liu indicate lack of agreement between Wang Ching-wei and Foreign Office authorities and we, therefore, propose to do nothing further in this matter. Before doing anything myself I shall, of course, inform Department and obtain its approval.

Johnson