793.94/9288: Telegram
The Ambassador in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 11—11:10 a.m.]
401. Tokyo’s 254, August 10, 7 p.m. I hope that the Department in considering any instructions which it may issue me in this regard will give consideration to the difficulty which I will be under if I am to urge the Chinese to give an early and favorable reply to a proposal which is understood to include conditions for eliminating all anti-Japanese activities in China. Heretofore this very general statement has appeared to cover not only obvious anti-Japanese activities but the whole form and purpose of Chinese nationalist education of the young as well as a positive attitude toward what Japanese are pleased to term communism.
Repeated to Tokyo.