493.11/1609: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Shanghai (Cunningham)
Washington
, March 2, 1932—5
p.m.
68. For the Minister. Your February 26, 7 p.m.
- 1.
- For the reasons mentioned in the Department’s 35 of February 19, 1 p.m., the Department is not in position to take the initiative or affirmatively to agree to a postponement of the American share of the Boxer Indemnity payments. However, in case either of the other two Governments approached in the matter agrees to postponement, the Department would not be disposed to raise any objection to postponement of payments of American share for 1 year from February 1, 1932, under express written assurance by the Chinese Government that the objects to which American payments are devoted would not be permitted to suffer.
- 2.
- The Department suggests that before replying to Soong you confer with your British colleague.
Stimson