Office of the Historian

Political affairs: organization of the National Assembly; recognition of the Republic of China by the United States and other powers; inauguration of President Yuan Shih K’ai; uprising in southern provinces suppressed; expulsion by presidential decree of Nationalist members of the Assembly; formation by the President of a Political Council 1

1. Continued from, For. Rel. 1912, pp. 46–86.

[137] The American Minister to the Secretary of State.

American Legation,
Peking, December 23, 1913.

File No. 893.01/9.