File No. 893.00/1403.
The American Ambassador to France to the Secretary of State.
Paris, July 31, 1912.
I have just received a note verbale from the Minister for Foreign Affairs dated July 29, of which the following is a translation:
Summary of translation: The Minister acknowledges the Ambassador’s note verbale of July 24 in regard to recognition of the Chinese Government. The French Government considers that under existing circumstances the conditions for recognition seem far from fulfilled. Until the Provisional Government shall have been succeeded by a regularly constituted parliamentary régime, according to the properly expressed desire of the people, and until such new and well-established government shall have given formal guaranty of treaty stipulations and rights of foreigners in China, the French Government does not consider that the question of recognition of the Chinese Government can be advantageously advanced.