811.113 Senate Investigation/81
The Secretary of State to the Chinese Minister (Sze)
The Secretary of State presents his compliments to the Honorable the Chinese Minister and, referring to the Department’s memorandum of September 22, 1934,48a stating that a copy of the Chinese Minister’s aide-mémoire of September 1849 in regard to the wheat credit extended to China last year had been transmitted to the Chairman of the Special Committee of the Senate Investigating the Munitions Industry, informs the Minister that the Chairman of that Committee has written the Department under date September 2750 stating that such information as the Committee has on this subject has not yet been thoroughly investigated; that that investigation is now under way; that there have been newspaper articles upon the subject which have incorrectly quoted a member of the Committee; and that the Committee does not believe that the charges made in this connection will be substantiated.