893.74/548a
The Department of State to the Chinese Legation
Memorandum
The Government of the United States, having been informed that the Chinese Government is finding itself increasingly embarrassed by the divergent views of certain American and Japanese radio interests in China, and being disposed to facilitate a fair and reasonable adjustment of the situation, has proposed to the Japanese Government a practical plan of cooperation by means of which an interchange of certain business between the Mitsui station at Peking and the proposed Federal stations might be effected. A copy of a memorandum on the subject addressed to the Japanese Embassy at Washington today is enclosed herewith13 for your information and in the hope that the proposal will have the approval of the Chinese Government in so far as it may be concerned with the matter. It is believed by the Government of the United States that the proposed plan would promote the early establishment of direct and adequate radio communication between the United States and China and that the present facilities between China and Japan would be improved and substantially augmented by the adoption of the suggestion, and at a great saving to the Chinese Government. It is hoped that the Chinese-Minister will at once recommend to his Government the acceptance of the arrangement and that the Japanese Government likewise will give its approval in order that the long-standing differences which [Page 904] have retarded radio development in China may now be quickly reconciled. It would seem that the plan proposed would resolve a situation which has been both discouraging and annoying to the parties in interest and that if an operating plan such as has been suggested offers a basis of an amicable settlement it behooves the three governments concerned to remove further cause of friction by accepting the proposal.
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