Office of the Historian

793.003/782

The Ambassador in Great Britain (Dawes) to the Secretary of State

London, October 6, 1931.
[Received October 14.]
No. 2297

Sir: I have the honor to refer to the Department’s instruction No. 852, July 14, 1931,5 relating to the proposed new treaty on extraterritorial rights of the United States in China, and to state that the memorandum forwarded therewith6 was duly delivered to the Foreign Office. There is attached hereto a copy of a memorandum in reply prepared by the Foreign Office, dated October 5, 1931,5 which was handed to a member of the Embassy staff without comment.

Respectfully yours,

(For the Ambassador)
Ray Atherton
  1. Not printed.↩
  2. For pertinent portions of memorandum, see telegram No. 228, July 13, to the Minister in China, p. 890.↩
  3. Not printed.↩