493.11 N 15/182: Telegram
The Minister in China (MacMurray) to the Secretary of State
[Received 10:45 p.m.]
614. Legation’s number 339, May 13 [11], 7 p.m. July 25, Wang33 addressed personal note to Cunningham reading in part as follows:
“As the Sino-American Joint Reparation Commission will convene at Nanking in the near future, it is much desired that you will be good enough to visit the American consulate at Nanking in order to assess the losses beforehand for use of the said Commission.”
Cunningham telegraphed me he assumed that Wang was fully aware that the Commission was not to investigate the American Government claim which had been accepted as presented and that he purposed to accept Wang’s invitation with the statement that he, accompanied by Vice Consul Paxton, would informally visit Nanking to inspect all American property there.
I replied approving of this procedure and have now been informed by Cunningham that, accompanied by Paxton, he is proceeding August 9 to Nanking. He stated that Wang had expressed his pleasure that they were coming and had said that, when the [Page 349] American consulate was reopened, any desired ceremonial as to raising the flag would be given.
- C. T. Wang, successor to Huang Fu as Nationalist Minister of Foreign Affairs.↩