893.102 Tientsin/446: Telegram
The Chargé in Japan (Dooman) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 6—8:05 a.m.]
387. I have received from the British Ambassador the following explanatory note on the so-called Craigie–Arita agreement of July 22:
“The formula: (a) Does not connote any change in His Majesty’s Government’s China policy. (b) Recognizes no right, only a situation of fact, (c) Does not approve actions giving rise to that situation. (d) Does not lay on His Majesty’s Government obligations of a neutral, but provides for a measure of impartiality in certain day to day contacts in a prescribed area in certain specified circumstances, (e) Does not promise anything involving infraction of His Majesty’s Government’s obligations to third parties. (f) Does not preclude His Majesty’s Government [from] continuing to press for redress of their grievances, (g) Involves no admission of past culpability on the part of His Majesty’s Government. (h) Does not give carte blanche to Japanese in deciding what degree of cooperation by British is necessary in measures designed to insure security and public order.”
Peiping please repeat to Chungking, Tientsin and Shanghai.