File No. 893.51/1819
The Secretary of State to Minister Reinsch
Washington, October 13, 1917, 2 p.m.
Your October 11, 1 a.m. The British Embassy here has handed several memoranda to the Department dealing with the proposed currency loan, communicating the views of His Britannic Majesty’s Government. The Department is basing a claim to participation in any currency loan upon the whole history of the project including the appeal to this Government by China in January, 1903, for assistance in that reform, its conferences with Dr. Jenks in 1903–1904 and its request for a loan for currency reform in 1910.21 This request was presented to the United States Government and not to any banking group. The American Government has never abandoned interest in the matter. You will so state to the Chinese Government and ask that action be deferred until this Government has time to make its representations.
- Chinese Loan Negotiation; For. Rel. 1912, p. 87 et seq. ↩