793.94/294: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in China (Reinsch)
Answering your April 14th, 7 p. m.21 You are authorized to give out informally and unofficially something in the following sense—
“The American Government has not surrendered any of its treaty rights in China or abated one iota of its friendly interest in all that concerns the industrial and political welfare of China. It is awaiting the results of the present negotiations in the confident expectation that the rights and obligations of the United States will not be affected or its interests impaired.”
For your own information will say that you have received copies of all our communications from which you will see that we have not acquiesced in anything that violates China’s rights or disregards this Nation’s interests.
- Not printed.↩