Office of the Historian

893.515/1369: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Chargé in China (Peck)

Washington, March 25, 1939—noon.

55. Your 183, March 17, 9 a.m., and Department’s 91, March 14, 6 p.m., to Shanghai.24 On March 21 an officer of the Chinese Embassy called at the Department and communicated certain information which the Embassy had received from the Chinese Government in regard to the currency situation in North China and stated that the Chinese Government understood that the British Government had advised British banks in North China not to cooperate with the new exchange control system and that the Chinese Government hoped that the American Government would similarly advise American banks.

On March 23 an officer of the Department informed the Chinese Embassy orally that we had talked with representatives of the American banks and had made to those representatives the statement of views of which account is given in the Department’s telegram to Shanghai No. 91, March 14, 6 p.m., paragraph 5.25

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  1. Latter not printed.↩
  2. Not printed, but see memorandum by Mr. Joseph M. Jones of the Division of Far Eastern Affairs, March 10, p. 376.↩