893.111/407: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Counselor of Embassy in China (Lockhart), at Peiping
231. Your 534, October 9, 4 p.m. The Department appreciates the information and suggestion contained in the telegram under reference. As it would appear, however, that any amelioration in the situation existing at Tsingtao as a result of travel requirements imposed by the Japanese authorities concerned has not been due to any action on the part of those authorities, and as with the return of Americans to Tsingtao next year the situation may be expected again to come to the fore, the Department believes that representations should be made at the present time along the lines of the Department’s 219, October 6, 1 p.m. It is the feeling of the Department that failure to make representations at the present time would tend to render less effectual any representations which this Government [Page 397] might make next year. However, in view of the fact that the situation existing is not now a matter of urgency, it is suggested that representations be made only at Peiping73 and that a copy of the Department’s 219, October 6, 1 p.m., be sent to the Embassy at Tokyo for its information only.
Sent to Peiping only.
- Representations were made on October 17.↩