File No. 861.77/488
The Secretary of State to the Chargé in China (MacMurray)
Your September 19, 8 p.m. You will please press the Chinese Government for a favorable reply at the earliest moment and may say the French Government, Doctor Masaryk for the Czecho-Slovaks, the Russian Minister at Peking and Russian Ambassador at Washington, have expressed their agreement and also the Japanese Government, which suggests only that the operation be under military protection to which this Government has assented.
You may say to the Russian Minister that the Russian Ambassador at Washington is entirely cognizant of the plan and thoroughly in sympathy with it and that this Government must deal of course with the Russian Ambassador at Washington in matters relating to Russia. There can be no objection to your saying to him that we hope he will feel assured that the United States Government is acting in this matter in the interest of the Russian people.