Office of the Historian

693.002/424: Telegram

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

Washington, December 21, 1937—6 p.m.

20. Your 75, December 17, 2 p.m. The Department feels that you should avoid advising the Chinese Government with respect to specific measures but you may emphasize the urgent and vital considerations [Page 909] involved, bearing in mind the general objectives of the Department’s telegram no. 339, December 12, 3 p.m., to the American Embassy in Tokyo. For your information there is given below the text of a telegram being sent to the American Embassy in Tokyo:

[Here follows quotation of Department’s telegram No. 366, December 21, 6 p.m., supra.]

Please repeat to Shanghai.

Hull