893.01/915: Telegram
The Ambassador in France (Leahy) to the Secretary of State
[Received 8:18 p.m.]
996. Embassy’s telegram 802, July 3, 4 p.m. We learn today that the Japanese Ambassador has made a further démarche to obtain French recognition of the Nanking régime. We made inquiry of [Page 533] Lagarde34 this afternoon and he told us that we could inform the Department that the French Government has rejected this suggestion and has no intention of recognizing Wang Ching-wei. (He admitted that if the pressure should become too strong there might be a reversal of this policy but insisted that for the moment the French are standing firm.)
- L. E. Lagarde, of the French Foreign Office.↩