File No. 893.5034/26
The Secretary of State to the Chargé in China ( MacMurray)
Your August 29, regarding Chinese trading company. Your proposal to notify the Chinese Government formally that the American [Page 155] Government will claim for its nationals as a treaty right any special privileges granted to the company is approved. In expressing to the Chinese Government the hope that there is no intention on its part to confer any exclusive or monopolistic powers on the company in question you will say that the American Government would be greatly concerned to learn that the Chinese Government had in fact countenanced the organization of a company which seems to have for its purpose the creation of a monopolistic enterprise in contravention of treaty provisions.