893.00/6875: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in China (MacMurray)
[Paraphrase]
Washington, December 24,
1925—6 p.m.
347. Legation’s Number 544 of December 24, 5 p.m., including identic telegram. Unless lives of American citizens are actually in danger, the Department would disapprove of the use of force; and from statement in fifth paragraph of your telegram it is assumed that the necessity to use force, which was apparent when the identic telegram was drawn up, no longer exists.
Grew