Office of the Historian

893.841 Surtax/13: Telegram

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

Peking, July 30, 1927—5 p.m.
[Received July 30—8:35 a.m.]

776. Your telegram No. 297, July 28, 3 p.m. In the contingency stated I should strongly recommend the procedure outlined in fourth, fifth and ninth paragraphs of the message from Senior Consul at Shanghai to Senior Minister here (my telegram No. 773, July 29, 5 p.m.).53 I believe that such action by the interested powers in the test case at Shanghai would halt just as [sic] the present general tendency to defy treaty; but if necessary substantially similar action could be taken at other ports.

MacMurray
  1. Post, p. 442.↩