Office of the Historian

893.01 Manchuria/1014: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Chargé in Great Britain (Atherton)

Washington, February 27, 1934—2 p.m.

67. Department notes that in House of Commons on January 31, in reply to a question whether there has been any change in the attitude [Page 58] of the British Government towards the new state of Manchukuo, Sir John Simon64 replied “No”.

In view of current newspaper stories misrepresenting the attitude of the American Government with regard to the question of nonrecognition, you should inform the Foreign Office that the American Government’s position in regard to that matter is in no way changed and that the Secretary of State has so replied to questions put in press conferences.65

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  1. British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.↩
  2. The Department in its telegram No. 70, February 28, 1934, 5 p.m. (893.01 Manchuria/1016) instructed the Chargé in Great Britain to link the first and second paragraphs of this instruction and to state “that you are doing so under express instruction.”↩