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893.102 Tientsin/634: Telegram

The Consul General at Tientsin (Caldwell) to the Secretary of State

Tientsin, April 18, 1940—11 a.m.
[Received April 18—3:50 a.m.]

57. My 56, April 18, 10 a.m.17 In a conversation with Vice Consul Yuni yesterday concerning the numerous present barrier difficulties of Americans, the Japanese Consular official who usually handles such matters asserted that attitude of American Government as evidenced by abrogation of the treaty and in other ways which he declined to specify has been designed to prevent a settlement of the Tientsin questions under discussion between the British and the Japanese authorities (see paragraphs, my telegram No. 277, November 22, 6 p.m., 193918).

Repeated to Chungking, Peiping, air mail to Tokyo.

Caldwell
  1. Not printed.↩
  2. Foreign Relations, 1939, vol. iv, p. 252.↩