393.1163Am3/411: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Counselor of Embassy in China (Lockhart), at Peiping
229. Your 531, October 7, 11 a.m., school of Sisters of Providence. Department concurs in the views expressed in paragraphs 2 and 3 of your telegram under reference and authorizes you to make further [Page 396] representations to the Japanese Embassy and to ask the Embassy in Tokyo, unless it perceives objection, to make representations to the Japanese Foreign Office.
It is suggested that the representations might include a statement to the effect that it is difficult to avoid the assumption that the present restrictions on the operation of this American school are the result at least indirectly of the anti-foreign agitation at Kaifeng carried on by Japanese-sponsored authorities.
Sent to Peiping. Repeated to Chungking and Hankow.