793.94/4767: Telegram
The Minister in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State
Shanghai, March 16, 1932—9
a.m.
[Received March 16—12:44 a.m.]
[Received March 16—12:44 a.m.]
My March 15, 10 a.m.
- 1.
- British Minister last evening forwarded to me the following text
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which had been given
to him by the Japanese Minister as a substitute for paragraph (3) of
the original draft:
“(3) A joint commission with neutral members to certify the carrying out of the agreement under paragraphs (1) and (2) and to watch and observe the general conditions in the evacuated area until a later settlement.”
- 2.
- Please note carefully additional wording which seems to indicate Japanese desire that neutral commission police the evacuated area pending further settlement. Does the Department desire that I permit our agents to participate to this extent?
- 3.
- I perceive in this an intention to raise question of policing this area at further conference.
Johnson