741.61/903: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Steinhardt)
Washington, October
25, 1940—5 p.m.
691. Your 1390, October 22, 5 p.m.,36 and 1393, October 23, 4 p.m. For your strictly confidential information, this Government does not [Page 623] share the view that an agreement, if reached, between Japan and the Soviet Union at this time would “probably bring about a collapse of Chinese resistance.” You may in your discretion so inform your British colleague.
Hull