124.93/59: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Great Britain (Kellogg)

188. Your telegram No. 229, July 2, 11 a.m. You may express to the Foreign Office my appreciation of its action in consulting with us as to the position to be taken in reference to the suggested raising to ambassadorial grade of the Legations at Peking, and say that I share the views of the British Government and propose to communicate to the Chinese Chargé d’Affaires, in the same informal way in which the Minister presented the question to me, my feeling that there is no occasion for any alteration in the status of diplomatic representation between the United States and China.

Repeat to Paris for information as Department’s 219.

Hughes