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Memorandum by the Secretary of State of a Conversation With the French Ambassador (Saint-Quentin)
The Ambassador inquired about the situation in China, to which I replied that the puppet government to be established at Nanking on March thirtieth under Japanese dictation and military support is to extend to Tientsin and Peking; that my Government has been opposing every inch of the Japanese invasion in every way except by drastic steps, and that it will continue to do so.
The Ambassador expressed the gratification of his Government at the American representations to Japan at the time of the bombing of the French railroad in China.87
- For representations by the American Embassy to the Japanese Ministry for Foreign Affairs, January 31 and March 11, see Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. i, pp. 674 and 678.↩