493.11 Woo, John W./2: Telegram
The Minister in China (MacMurray) to the Secretary of State
[Received January 22—11:30 a.m.]
43. …
1. Commissioner Spiker of Nanking Claims Commission52 has informed me, in a despatch of January 4th, of refusal of Chinese [Page 859] Commissioners under Chinese nationality law of jus sanguinis to consider claims filed by following four brothers, American citizens born in Hawaiian Islands of Chinese parents:
[Here follow details regarding Dr. John W. Woo, Dr. Paul S. Woo, Francis H. Woo, and Timothy D. Woo.]
2. Assuming American citizenship of these claimants to be sufficiently established, I request Department’s instructions as to the support to be given their claims in view of their being of dual nationality and domiciled in the country of their other allegiance.
- C. J. Spiker, Second Secretary of Legation in China, and V. G. Lyman, of Shanghai, were the two American members, while the two Chinese members were C. Kuangson Young (Yang Kuang-sheng) and Wu Ching.↩