893.05/176: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in China (MacMurray)
Washington, November 2, 1929—11
p.m.
360. Your 942, October 31, 5 p.m.
- 1.
- Department authorizes you to name as delegates any two or three of the following persons: Judge Purdy,1 if available, Perkins,2 Bucknell and Jacobs.
- 2.
- It is believed that Cunningham’s relationship may most advantageously be that of authorized but undesignated adviser.
- 3.
- Travel allowances and per diem will be authorized.
- 4.
- With regard to submitting formulated proposals, such as Scheme A, it is my opinion that the American delegation should not at the outset or at any given moment submit a plan worked out and agreed upon among the principal foreign ministers. I approve in broad outline of Scheme A, but I feel that, rather than to take the responsibility for submitting it, with the likelihood that the Chinese, knowing or assuming that it represents a plan agreed upon by several legations or several governments, would reject it, it would be better to talk its provisions over, in outline but not in text, with the Chinese, and, if they come anywhere near to assenting to it, to offer them the opportunity to present as their own a scheme along its lines.
Stimson