125.956/37
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in China (Johnson)
Washington, November 9, 1937—7
p.m.
346. Reference Allison’s Nov. 8, 2 p.m., from Tsingtao. Provided you consider it advisable, the Department has no objection to Allison’s [Page 376] remaining temporarily at Tsinan to handle any urgent and important matters which require attention, but feels that he should, upon the completion of emergency duties, return to Nanking to report and to discuss with you the subject matter of the telegram under reference.
Welles