893.113/1212: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in China ( MacMurray )
Washington
, October 5, 1929—6
p.m.
327. Your 851, September 30, 6 p.m.,94 and Department’s 313, September 20, 7 p.m.
- 1.
- After carefully considering the procedure described in your paragraphs 1 and 2 and the comments contained in your paragraph 4 the Department is convinced that serious difficulties may in practice arise if there be authorized any alternative so far proposed to the requirement laid down in the Department’s telegram 139, of April 27, 2 p.m., paragraph 2.
- 2.
- Reverting therefore to that requirement, you are requested to inform persons interested that as a condition precedent to the issuing of a license for the exportation of arms to China the Department will require that there be presented by the Chinese diplomatic representative at Washington a request on the part of his Government that the American Government authorize exportation.
Stimson
- Not printed.↩