707.1161/22: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Minister in China (Schurman)

41. Your telegram No. 100, March 11, 3 P.M., paragraph 3. The Department believes that the communications of the Ministers to Karakhan and to the Chinese Government should be as informal as possible, and should avoid any intimation that his status as a member and as Dean of the Diplomatic Body results from the action of the Ministers rather than from the fact of his recognition by the Chinese Government as Soviet Ambassador.

Kellogg