Office of the Historian

893.01/848: Telegram

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

Chungking, December 2, 1940—noon.
[Received December 2—6:05 a.m.]

597. With reference to the third paragraph of the Chinese Foreign Minister’s statement quoted in my 595, December 1, 10 a.m.,98 he orally informed me yesterday that representatives in Chungking of third powers according recognition to the Nanking regime would be handed their passports.

Sent to the Department. Repeated to Peiping for transmission by air mail to Tokyo.

Johnson
  1. Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. ii, p. 122.↩