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Memorandum by the Minister in China (Johnson) of a Conversation With the Chinese Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs (Hsu Mo)64
During the course of my conversation with Dr. Hsu Mo this morning, in regard to Customs controversies and other matters, I took occasion to invite to his attention the fact that the American Government had recently expended more than one-half a million gold dollars to repatriate Chinese citizens who had been expelled by the Mexican Government. Dr. Hsu Mo stated that he was grateful for this most helpful act on the part of the American Government and I replied that I hoped that he would not only be grateful but would bear this fact in mind when he was considering the matter of Customs controversies and the other items which I had brought to his attention in the hope that he would take action to assure fairer treatment for the American interests concerned. I deemed it expedient to wait until I return to Nanking in December to make the representations specified in the Department’s instruction No. 1176 of September 1, 1933,65 in regard to this matter.