893.046/2: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Japan (Grew)
120. Peiping’s despatch 2557, March 9,56 Luther L. Loucks.
1. The Department desires that the Embassy at Tokyo make an approach to the Japanese Foreign Office, in such manner as it may deem appropriate, along lines as follows:
The Government of the United States is informed that the Mukden District Court on October 16, 1939, undertook to render judgment against property belonging to an American citizen, Mr. Luther L. Loucks. In view of the extraterritorial rights which nationals of the United States in Manchuria possess by virtue of treaties between the United States and China, persons having legal claim upon those nationals or upon their property should properly have recourse to the appropriate American court. This Government objects to any attempt on the part of the authorities in Manchuria to assert jurisdiction over American persons or their property and makes full reservation of the rights of the American national whose property is concerned in the case under reference.
2. The Department desires that the Embassy at Peiping instruct the American Consul at Mukden57 to make an approach at Hsinking along similar lines.
Sent to Tokyo via Peiping. Repeated to Chungking.