893.74/586: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in China (MacMurray)
190. Your 299, July 29, 7 p.m. The Chief of the Far Eastern Division had a conversation with the Chinese Minister on August 5, during the course of which he brought to his attention the substance of your interview with the Chinese Minister for Foreign Affairs on July 27, and pointed out to him that, for the Chinese Government to ask the American company to adjust its differences with the Japanese before asking further consideration of the matter of its contract on the part of the Chinese was to lead this Government to see in this repudiation by the Chinese Government of the principles of the policy of the open door. The Chinese Minister promised to see what he could do by way of taking up the matter with his Government.