756.94/56
The Under Secretary of State (Welles) to the French Ambassador (Saint-Quentin)
My Dear Mr. Ambassador: I acknowledge receipt of your letter of April 1929 and the aide-mémoire of the same date to which it refers.
The suggestions which your Government offers, as conveyed in the aide-mémoire have been given careful consideration. It seems to us that, in the light of the statements which have been made during the last few days by or on behalf of the French, the British and the American Governments respectively, and of reports which have appeared regarding the reaction of the Japanese Foreign Office thereto, there would seem to be no need, for the present at least, of the taking of formal steps such as your Government has suggested.
I am [etc.]