Office of the Historian

893.51 Salt Funds/189: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Shanghai (Lockhart)

Washington, June 15, 1938—7 p.m.

382. Following for Tokyo: as Department’s 196, June 15, 7 p.m.

“Your 378, June 14, 2 p.m.,7 Chinese Salt Administration. The Department authorizes you, when you have ascertained that your British colleague is prepared to take similar action, to leave with the Foreign Office an aide-mémoire referring to your aide-mémoire of March 19, and stating that the American Government would welcome assurances from the Japanese Government that it is prepared to accord full respect to American interests in the Chinese salt revenues.”8

Repeat to Hankow and Peiping.

Hull
  1. See telegram No. 839, June 14, 6 p.m., from the Consul General at Shanghai, p. 726.↩
  2. For American and Japanese exchange of memoranda on June 21 and August: 31, see Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. i, p. 745.↩