793.003/242: Telegram
The Chargé in China (Perkins) to the Secretary of State
[Received January 3—2:25 p.m.]
10. [For the first part of this telegram, see Foreign Relations, 1929, volume II, page 674, footnote 57.]
2. At meeting yesterday of Diplomatic Body when mandate of December 28th was informally discussed, I took occasion to say that my instructions were to the effect that the American Government maintained the stand taken in its note of November 1st last42 that the Department was at present engaged in discussions with the Chinese Minister with a view to the ultimate conclusion of an agreement and proposed to continue the discussion of the subject. I also said that I had received no instructions as to the intentions of my Government with respect to the making of a protest or reservation concerning the mandate in question.
- See telegram No. 958, November 4, 1929, from the Minister in China, Foreign Relations, 1929, vol. ii, p. 616.↩