793.94/10419
The Department of State to the British Embassy
Aide-Mémoire
The receipt is acknowledged of the British Embassy’s aide-mémoire of October 1, 1937, on the subject of representations to the Japanese Government in regard to the use of the International Settlement at Shanghai as a base for Japanese military operations.
The American Government, in reply to the British Government’s inquiry whether or not the American Government would be prepared [Page 569] to instruct the American Ambassador at Tokyo to make representations in the matter similar to those which the British Ambassador has been instructed to make, informs the British Government that the American Ambassador has been authorized to make, in association with his British colleague, appropriate representations against the use of the International Settlement as a base for Japanese military operations.71