Office of the Historian

693.003/902: Telegram

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

Washington, April 20, 1929—5 p.m.

131. Your 283, April 15, 10 p.m., paragraph 3. You may send note as drafted with following changes:54 Omit portion beginning “Both [Page 808] of these instances” and ending “notes of February 6, 1929”. Change the words thereafter as follows: “I have the honor therefore, under instructions from my Government, to ask that Your Excellency’s Government investigate” etc.

Clark
  1. These changes apply to the final paragraph of the note, the text of which was transmitted to the Department in the Minister’s telegram No. 283, April 15; the paragraph reads as follows: “Both of these instances of discrimination cited Your Excellency will, I am confident, recognize as very clearly in contravention of the provisions relating to non-discriminatory treatment contained in the Sino-American treaty of July 25, 1928, and of the more precise understanding with regard to Article number I of the treaty set forth in the exchange of notes of February 6, 1929. I shall not hesitate therefore to ask that Your Excellency’s Government will investigate”, etc. For the exchange of notes under reference signed February 6, 1929, see pp. 786 and 787.↩