Office of the Historian

493.11/2117: Telegram

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

Washington, April 16, 1938—5 p.m.

127. Your 196, April 8, 3 p.m. The Department approves your proposed action as outlined in the last sentence of your telegram under reference.

You will of course bear in mind in this connection the Department’s 262 to Nanking, September 24, 1937, 2 p.m.,20 and Department’s 14 to Peiping, January 14, 6 p.m.

Welles
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