500.A41a/168
The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the Chinese Legation at Washington85
[Peking,] October 19,
1921.
suggestions of revised and tentative agenda: pacific and far eastern questions
- 1.
- Far East in General:
- 1st
- Principles to be applied.
- 2nd
- Application:
- a
- Treaties and agreements entered into by the participants in the Conference with regard to the Far East.
- b
- Declarations to be made by the participants for the mutual respect of sovereignty and territory.
- c
- Removal of the barriers to the peace of the Far East.
- d
- Periodical conferences to discuss important international questions in the Far East.
- 2.
- Questions relating to China:
- 1st
- Principles to be applied.
- 2nd
- Application:
- a
- Administrative integrity.
- b
- Tariff autonomy.
- c
- Open Door: Equality of commercial and industrial opportunity.
- d
- Concessions, monopolies or preferential economic privileges.
- e
- Development of railways and equality of treatment in railways.
- f
- Status of existing commitments.
- 3.
- Siberia:
Headings same as originally intended by U.S. Government. - 3.
- Mandated Islands:
(Unless questions earlier settled)- a
- Electrical communications in the Pacific.
- A memorandum of Oct. 25 by the Chief of the Division of Far Eastern Affairs states: “Mr. Alfred Sze, Chinese Minister, this afternoon left with me the attached translation of a telegram, dated October 19, from the Chinese Ministry for Foreign Affairs.”↩