893.51/2851: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in China (Crane)
167. Your 149, June 26, noon.
In an Aide Memoire dated July 2, Japanese Embassy informs Department that Chinese Government asked you for explanation of actual conditions of the plan of the consortium. In an aide memoire of July 8th Japanese Embassy again refers to the matter and states that you propose to communicate to the Chinese Government the Lamont letters with an explanatory note stating “the Banking Groups of the Four Powers have joined the consortium without any conditions.” The Department is now considering with Mr. Lamont the question of communicating the letters in question to the Chinese Government and you should refrain from any communications on the subject until the Department can instruct you as it expects to do very shortly.