793.94 Conference/362: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in China (Johnson)
54. Your 72 [79], February 4, 9 a.m. On January 29 the Chinese Ambassador2 called on me at his request. During the course of the ensuing conversation I referred by way of illustration to a press report from Geneva that various foreign governments contemplated approaching the American Government in regard to a proposal to extend credits to China for the purchase of arms and munitions. I said to the Ambassador that he knew the situation in this country in regard to a question of that sort and that I of course assumed that the representatives of any governments which might have presented to them for consideration any such plan would have knowledge and understanding of the situation here in this regard, I made no statement of the nature mentioned in your telegram under reference.
- C. T. Wang.↩