711.933/170: Telegram
The Minister in China (MacMurray) to the Secretary of State
Peiping, November 19, 1929—6
p.m.
[Received November 20—9:20 a.m.]
[Received November 20—9:20 a.m.]
1009. Legation’s 970, November 7, 8 p.m.
- 1.
- At a meeting of the interested Ministers today French Minister stated that in reply to his note of November 1, he had received from the Minister for Foreign Affairs a note dated November 9th, in which it was urged that the French Minister should proceed to Nanking as soon as possible to discuss the abolition of extraterritoriality. The French Minister proposed to answer that he was prepared to accept this proposal when the Chinese Government should have made a concrete proposal on the subject which might be transmitted to the French Government for its consideration and the issuance of appropriate instructions.
- 2.
- The Dutch Chargé d’Affaires stated that he had received a similar note from Nanking and that he would seek to obtain from his Government authority to make a reply similar to that outlined by the French Minister.
- 3.
- The British Minister and myself stated that we had as yet received no reply to our respective notes of November 1st but that we had inquired by telegraph of our Consuls at Nanking whether such reply had been received for transmission.
MacMurray