393.1111 Halverstadt, Harriet/14: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in China (Johnson)
Washington, December 30, 1931—5
p.m.
473. Your 1136, December 28, 11 a.m.77 and previous in regard to capture of Miss Halverstadt.
- 1.
- Department notes from Foochow’s telegram of December 29, 1 p.m.,77 that Miss Halverstadt has not been released and that the Methodist Mission believes that she is held at a place within an easy 2 hours’ walk from launch connections. Department desires that you press this case with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stating, as under instruction from the Department, that the American Government is deeply concerned.
- 2.
- Department is of the opinion that it would be well for you to direct Peck78 to call on the Minister for Foreign Affairs and inform him orally that the capture of Miss Halverstadt, following so closely upon the murder of Mr. Vinson, causes the American Government to entertain great anxiety with regard to the safety of American citizens in China, and that Peck might also address the Minister for Foreign Affairs orally but on behalf of the Department along the lines outlined in the Department’s telegram No. 127, November 29, 2 p.m., to Nanking,77 paragraph 2.
Carr