Office of the Historian

893.01/601: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Italy (Phillips)

Washington, January 23, 1940—5 p.m.

15. Your 49, January 22, 2 p.m. The Department is sending you separately for your information an excerpt from a telegram sent by the Department on November 13 to Tokyo48 in which there is expressed this Government’s views in regard to the proposed establishment of a new Chinese regime. The Department suggests that, at some opportune moment, you take occasion to communicate orally to Ciano, as a matter of information and without implying any criticism of the Italian attitude as exemplified in Ciano’s telegram to Wang Ching-Wei, that expression of this Government’s views.

Hull
  1. See telegram No. 349, November 13, 1939, 8 p.m., to the Ambassador in Japan, Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. ii, p 34.↩