Office of the Historian

893.5045/151: Telegram

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

London, July 30, 1925—11 a.m.
[Received July 30—7:59 a.m.]

236. Department’s 236, July 22, 2 p.m. was communicated to Foreign Office. Mr. Chamberlain stated to me in an interview yesterday that the British Government agreed to the proposal approved by MacMurray that a Chinese judge be appointed.

Chamberlain continued that the substance of the contemplated British note to the Chinese was practically the same as that of the proposed reply quoted in Department’s 239, July 23, 3 p.m.13 but there was considerable difference in the wording which Chamberlain thought might be made more nearly to conform; to that end, he will telegraph the British Chargé d’Affaires in Peking to confer with MacMurray and agree as nearly as possible upon an identic phraseology.

I expressed to Chamberlain the satisfaction with which this apparent correspondence of views would be received.

Houghton
  1. Not printed; see note of July 23 to the British Chargé, p. 793, and footnote 99, p. 795.↩