793.003/675: Telegram
The Consul General at Nanking (Peck) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 13—12:10 p.m.]
21. The National People’s Convention today issued a manifesto the substance of which is as follows:
In order that the existence of the Chinese race may be protected, an obstacle to the peace of the world removed, and a blot on modern civilization wiped out, and, believing that the powers of the world will understand and agree, and the Chinese people will give uniform support, it is declared: (1) that the Chinese people do not accord recognition to any of the unequal treaties previously concluded between the foreign nations and China, and (2) that in accordance with the teachings of the late leader the National Government shall within the shortest possible period of time put into realization the freedom of China and her complete equality among the nations.