The Archive · 1940

The Secretary of

Cordell Hull, indicated here yesterday that the United States Marines may soon be withdrawn from China.

Asked whether the State Department's advice to civilians to evacuate from the Par East was a prelude to the withdrawal of the Marines, Mr. Hull replied that he might have somethinz to say on this subject a little later.

Immediately afier Mr. Hull's press: conference another State Department spokesman said the question of with Growing the Marines from China had hot yet been oficilly discussed but that it might soon be considered.

Mr, Hull destined to reveal the details of his forty minute conversa tion yesterday with the Japanese Ambassador, Mr. Kensuke Horinowchi He said, however, that they did not go into any particulars on' current Japanese-American relations.

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