493.11N15/309: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in China (MacMurray)
182. Your 259, April 3, 6 p.m., paragraph 3.74 If you have heard nothing further from the Chinese authorities in regard to the payment of the Nanking awards, the Department desires that you inform the Minister for Foreign Affairs that your Government has received and examined the final report of the Sino-American Joint Commission, signed March 13, 1929, and believes that the Chinese Government will feel the same satisfaction that is felt by the American Government at the way in which the Commission has done its work. You should state in reference to the payment of interest on awards that, if the Chinese Government pays promptly the amounts awarded to American claims, the American Government will then be disposed not to press further the claim which it has asserted on behalf of these claimants for interest. It should be urged that the interests of equity and international good feeling would be greatly advanced by the prompt payment of these awards and you should inquire on behalf of your Government regarding the time and manner of payment decided upon by the Chinese Government. You may use your discretion as to the time and manner of transmitting this communication and the including of additional subject matter. It should be understood, [Page 870] however, that the suggestion that claim to interest may be waived is made contingent upon early payment of amounts awarded.
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