Office of the Historian

124.93/72: Telegram

The Minister in China (Schurman) to the Secretary of State

Peking, July 22, 1924—noon.
[Received July 22—7:47 a.m.]

253. Your 152, July 12, 10 [3?] p.m.95 In a long and intimate talk at his house with Koo yesterday he told me that Japanese Government regarded favorably the idea of raising Peking Legation to Embassy and that Italian Government had replied they would give the matter careful consideration. …

In reply to my inquiry Koo stated that Karakhan had been appointed Ambassador and would be received by the President in a few days.

Schurman
  1. See footnote 94, p. 469.↩