893.51/6405: Telegram
The Counselor of Embassy in China (Peck) to the Secretary of State
[Received June 28—4 a.m.]
246. The Ministry of Communications signed a contract with R. C. A. Victor Company June 26 to purchase 16 sets 4/2 kilowatts R. C. A. radio and telegraph and telephone transmitters, 38 sets A R 60 receivers together with terminal and privacy equipments and accessories improvement, total price of $408,000 U. S. currency. This equipment will provide for radio telephone and telegraph connections between Nanking and the principal capitals and important cities of China.
[Page 610]The Ministry of Communications invited the Ambassador, the Commercial Attaché and me as well as R. C. A. representatives to dinner June 26 in celebration of this important purchase of American equipment which was the more significant because the Embassy took part in the negotiations. The Minister of Communications observed to me as the only representative of the American Embassy here that the conclusion of the negotiations during the visit of the Minister of Finance in the United States was an especially happy coincidence. I agreed to report the information to the Department by telegraph. It was evidently the Minister’s idea that this information might promote the cordiality of the meeting with the Minister of Finance.
Repeated to the Department; repeated to Peiping.