861.77/2377: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in China (Schurman)
[Paraphrase]
Washington, January 10,
1922—7 p.m.
3. Your no. 8 of January 7, 11 a.m. See the Minister for Foreign Affairs, … talk with him along the lines indicated in our instructions of December 24, 1921, 3 p.m., and lay before him the plan outlined in that telegram. Present the plan merely as a suggestion, however, so as to avoid the possibility that he will immediately unconditionally reject it.
Hughes