893.51/2594: Telegram
The Ambassador in Japan (Morris) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 28, 3.24 a.m.]
Your December 23, 6 p.m. I delivered in the form of a memorandum to the Minister for Foreign Affairs this afternoon.63 He then told me of the contents of the note which he had delivered to my British colleague and the substance of which I telegraphed the Department in my telegram December 25, 1 p.m. He remarked that perhaps the members of the old consortium would file objections with the Chinese Government to the [garbled group] Pacific Development Company contract, and at the same time the new emergency loan of £5,000,000, as now agreed to, might be offered as a substitute.
In regard to the proposed new consortium he told me that he was still endeavoring to find some formula which would protect Japan’s vital interests in Manchuria and Mongolia and also meet the views of the other Governments.
- Afternoon of Dec. 27; this telegram was apparently drafted on Dec. 27 but not dispatched until the following morning.↩