Office of the Historian

893.00/13882: Telegram

The Ambassador in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State

Nanking, January 9, 1937—11 a.m.
[Received January 9—6:36 a.m.]

9. Department’s telegram No. 84, of December 18, 7 p.m.17 On the afternoon of December 24 the Counselor of the British Embassy, the French Ambassador, and I separately and individually communicated to Kung18 our readiness to cooperate in carrying out the proposal outlined in my number 365 of December 19, 11 p.m., to the Department.19 The Italian Ambassador had communicated his readiness to cooperate a day or two previously. The Japanese Embassy was still without instructions. As Chiang was unconditionally released on December 25 and arrived in Nanking accompanied by Chang Hsueh-liang on December 26, the latter submitting himself to trial and punishment by the Government, it seems probable that the Chinese Government will not avail itself of the British suggestion. Full report by mail.20

Johnson
  1. Foreign Relations, 1936, vol. iv, p. 434.↩
  2. H. H. Kung, acting President of the Chinese Executive Yuan (Premier).↩
  3. Foreign Relations, 1936, vol. iv, p. 438.↩
  4. Not printed.↩