893.51/5860: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in China ( Johnson )
Washington
, February
21, 1934—7 p.m.
49. Your 93, February 20, 11 a.m.—Hukuang loan.
- 1.
- You are authorized to sign the joint memorandum.
- 2.
- Department would suggest, however, if your colleagues consent, that the word “validity”, the seventh word from the end of the third paragraph of the proposed joint memorandum, be changed to “value”, and that there be added to the last paragraph of the proposed memorandum the words “and previous memoranda and notes,” if in fact there were previous memoranda and notes on the subject.2
Hull
- The text of the joint memorandum, dated March 7, 1934, contained these changes, except that the two words “and notes” were omitted (893.51/5876).↩