Office of the Historian

124.93/403a: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Second Secretary of Embassy in China (Atcheson), at Nanking

Washington, December 9, 1937—5 p.m.

372. Your 1021, December 9, 10 a.m93 You will of course keep in mind and be guided by the statement made in the Department’s 368, November 30, 2 p.m., to the effect that you and staff should not expose yourselves to imminent and serious danger.94

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  1. Vol. iv, p. 392.↩
  2. For correspondence concerning the Japanese attack on the U. S. S. Panay, December 12, see ibid., pp. 485 ff.↩