893.05/178: Telegram
The Minister in China (MacMurray) to the Secretary of State
Peiping, November 9, 1929—3
p.m.
[Received 4:35 p.m.]
[Received 4:35 p.m.]
976. My 965, November 6, 5 p.m.
- 1.
- I received last night a telegram from Minister for Foreign Affairs to the effect that it had been decided to hold a conference at Nanking November 19th to negotiate the Provisional Court question and requesting that he be informed by telegraph of the names of the Legation staff representatives at such conference.
- 2.
- Senior Minister has just informed me that he was this morning approached by a local representative of the Foreign Office conveying a personal message from C. T. Wang to the effect that he did not wish to have any consular officers appointed as delegates of the interested Legations. Oudendijk asked this intermediary to convey in reply to Wang a personal message that as he and his colleagues must of course reserve the right to designate such representatives as they thought most suitable to carry on the negotiations competently and expeditiously he would strongly urge Wang not to stand upon so preposterous and obstructive a suggestion.
MacMurray