122.352/48: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Chargé in China (Perkins)
23. Your despatch 2462, December 5. The Department is inclined to consider favorably the requests of the Chinese Government contained [Page 632] in its note of September 23 last.6 However, the Department recognizes that disadvantages might readily ensue from compliance with these requests and before coming to a definite decision the Department desires that you endeavor to obtain additional information regarding the views held and position likely to be taken by the other Governments most concerned. You are authorized to intimate to your colleagues in your discretion that this Government is not aware of convincing objections from a technical standpoint that could be made to the Chinese Government’s requests in this connection. Reply by telegraph.
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