711.94/1387: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in China (Johnson)
287. Your 633, December 13, 4 p.m. If Kato comes to you with proposals such as are outlined or similar thereto, you should listen attentively and should say that the subject matter is one for discussion between your Government and the Japanese Government but that you will of course report to your Government what Kato has said. You should take occasion, however, to make expressly and clearly a comment that your Government does not seek “special treatment” for American nationals and interests in China, special treatment and discriminatory treatment being methods and procedures to which this country expressly, consistently and constantly objects.