Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, 1931, The Far East, Volume III

793.003/763: Telegram

The Minister in China (Johnson) to the Acting Secretary of State

[Paraphrase]

Peiping, July 30, 1931—10 a.m.
[Received July 30—12:50 a.m.]

471. Department’s instruction No. 536, July 6, 1931, enclosing memorandum dated July 2.⁹¹

Would it be expedient or possible, in matters of personal, status, for the American Government, by supplementary legislation and treaty, to place Chinese aliens under jurisdiction of the Federal courts, thereby permitting use of the reciprocal clause which the British have adopted and which appears to me to be more acceptable than the one proposed by Mr. Weigh?

Johnson

91. Memorandum by Mr. Joseph E. Jacobs of the Division of Far Eastern Affairs, p. 886.