Office of the Historian

762.94/269: Telegram

The Counselor of Embassy in China (Lockhart) to the Secretary of State

Peiping, January 17, 1939—4 p.m.
[Received January 18—7 a.m.]

Following from Mukden:

“59, January 16, 8 p.m., Premier this evening announced that State Council today decided in view of Manchukuo’s alliance with [Page 5] Japan and fundamental enmity toward communism to join Anti-Comintern Pact and immediately to begin negotiations with parties thereto looking to formal adherence”.

Repeated to Chungking, by mail to Tokyo.

Lockhart