811.7393C73/52
Memorandum by the American Minister in China (Johnson) of a Conversation With the Chinese Minister for Foreign Affairs (C. T. Wang)3
I saw Dr. Wang by appointment this morning and stated that I had come to bespeak on behalf of the Commercial Pacific Cable Company a sympathetic consideration of its desire to retain contact with the public in the matter of handling messages. I stated that I understood that this was the only matter now seriously in dispute and that the Company felt that it had made every concession possible by agreeing to submit to almost complete supervision and operation of the land end of the cable. I stated that at least the Chinese Government might adopt a policy in this matter that would accord reciprocal treatment to this American company, i. e. treatment similar to that in practice in France, especially as the United States granted to foreign cable companies operating with the United States the right to solicit for business.
- Copy transmitted to the Department by the Minister in China in his despatch No. 687, December 19, 1930; received January 28, 1931.↩