Office of the Historian

893.01/847: Telegram

The Second Secretary of Embassy in China (Paxton) to the Secretary of State

Nanking, November 30, 1940—11 a.m.
[Received 2:15 p.m.]

128. Japanese recognition was accorded the local regime this morning by the signature of the treaty.95 This was followed by mutual “Manchoukuo-Nanking Government” recognition.96 British and French Consuls would appreciate their equivalent offices in the Far East being informed in the substance of this message.

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Sent to the Department. Repeated to Chungking, Peiping, and Shanghai. Shanghai please repeat to Tokyo.97

Paxton
  1. For text, see Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. ii, p. 117.↩
  2. See ibid., p. 122.↩
  3. The Embassy in Japan also reported receipt of documents from the Japanese Foreign Office.↩