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expressed his chief's regret that he couldn't come and his appreciation
of my having sent Colonel Mcllroy to the station to welcome the
Commission and to offer the Embassy's co-operation in its work.
Lytton is really very ill with intestinal trouble and a temperature of
105, and Lindley is much worried. I told McCoy that we would
have been delighted to have had Mrs. McCoy and himself stay at
the Embassy were I not uncertain how the Japanese would take it ;
it might look a little like tampering with the jury. McCoy said
that he could not have accepted as he had consistently avoided
staying with any of our diplomatic or consular representatives and
that he had declined to stay with Forbes when they were here
before.
Thus was the glorious Fourth fitly celebrated.
MANCHURIA TO " MANCHUKUO "
July 5> iQSa
Fleisher, who is the only American correspondent who has followed
my invitation to drop in often and does so every day or two, told
me the source from which he had picked up the material for his
article this morning on certain points of view of the League of Nations
Commission which had aroused a howl of protest. He also told me
that he had cabled the New York Herald Tribune that Lindley had
made representations to the Foreign Office against Japanese recogni-
tion of Manchukuo and that Arita, Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs,
had told Lindley that recognition would not take place at least until
the Commission had submitted its report to Geneva. This also later
aroused a storm of protest in the Japanese press against Arita, who
squirmed out of it by saying that he was only giving his personal
opinion.
Incidentally, Fleisher told me that Ting Chien-hsiu, the Manchukuo
Minister of Communications, at present visiting Tokyo, yesterday
received the correspondents. To the great amusement of the latter,
Ting, when he came into the room, was immediately surrounded
by about seven Japanese officials. A correspondent said : "Do you
favour the complete independence of Manchukuo ? " to which the
Chinese replied in the affirmative, whereupon one of the Japanese
officials whispered something in his ear, and he added : " In accord-
ance with the self-determination of the Manchurian people." Another
correspondent asked something about Japanese recognition, to which
Ting replied. Again the Japanese official got up and whispered in his
ear, and Ting added : " And we likewise hope for recognition by the
United States." Fle\sher said the correspondents could hardly keep
from laughing out loud it was so ludicrous.
July 6, 1932
I went to see Martel to find out if he too had made representations
concerning the recognition of Manchukuo by Japan. He told me