793.94/6625: Telegram
The Consul General at Canton (Ballantine) to the Secretary of State
[Received April 29—7:28 a.m.]
Consuls at Canton have received for transmission a declaration dated April 27 by the Southwest Political Council addressed to the League of Nations and to the Ministers of the signatory powers of the Nine-Power Pact. This declaration asserts that the statement of policy issued by the Japanese Foreign Office on April 17 threatens the independence of China and the peace of the Far East and it calls upon the League and the parties to the Nine-Power Treaty to discharge their obligations under existing instruments aimed at maintaining international peace.
[Page 148]Copies by mail.79 Repeated to the Department, the Legation and Nanking.
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