893.74/526: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in China (Sehurman)
24. Davis is fully aware of the internal dissensions among the American interests concerned with the Federal wireless contract, and, in fact, information which he provided to the Department formed the basis for the Department’s telegram of January 28, No. 16. Accordingly you may employ complete frankness in discussing with him how far those interests will be able and willing to go ahead.
I am, of the opinion that the radio conference proposal which you suggest in your telegram of February 5, No. 61, might have a tendency to cause the Federal Company’s valid legal position under the agreements now in existence to be compromised without adequately assuring, from a conference held under present conditions in China, any effective results.
Appropriate support may be continued by you to try to secure the fulfillment by the Chinese Government of the obligations which the Federal contract imposes upon it.
In reply to the Japanese memorandum of December 24, 1924, I propose to say:
[Here follows, in substance, the second paragraph of the note to the Japanese Embassy, February 28, 1925, printed infra.]