Office of the Historian

893.00/10556: Telegram

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

Washington, October 14, 1929—5 p.m.

333. Your 881, October 12, 5, p.m. The view of the Department that “foreign nations should stand so far as possible aloof from the internal dissensions in China” is unchanged (see Department’s telegram May 17 [18], 5 p.m., 1922).2 At your discretion you may advise American shipping companies that the degree of protection this Government can afford them in their normal activities will be adversely affected to the extent that they allow themselves to become involved in Chinese military operations.

Stimson
  1. Foreign Relations, 1922, vol. i, p. 705.↩