893.74/730b: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Chargé in China (Mayer)
251. Department’s 232 of October 16, 1 p.m. Following memorandum will be handed today to Japanese Ambassador:
[Here follows the memorandum, dated October 28, to the Japanese Ambassador, and its enclosures, printed supra.]
You will leave a copy of the above with the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs accompanied by a memorandum somewhat along the following lines: stating that this is a copy of a memorandum which has been handed to the Japanese Ambassador at Washington in reply to his memorandum of June 1, 1925, and state that you have been instructed to invite attention of the Chinese Foreign Office to the proposal of the Radio Corporation of America to invite duly accredited representatives of the Chinese Ministry of Communications, Mitsui Company and the Federal Telegraph Company of Delaware to meet in the City of New York for the purpose of making a study of wireless communication systems and of finding a means whereby Japanese and American interests concerned may by cooperation between their respective projects amicably solve the wireless difficulty which has for so long been the subject of discussion between the Governments of China, Japan and the United States. You should remind the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs that the Federal [Page 1092] Telegraph Company of Delaware expects the Chinese Ministry of Communications to proceed without delay to the execution of its part of the contract made with the Federal Company. You should express orally the hope of that Company that the Ministry of Communications will not make use of this proposal as an excuse for further delay in the execution of the contract. In your memorandum to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs you will conclude by asking for an early indication of the attitude of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of communications towards this proposal which is in conformity with suggestions heretofore made to you by Chinese officials, in order that you may, without loss of time, advise the Department so that it can communicate the information to the Radio Corporation of America.