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Memorandum by the American Ambassador in China (Johnson) of a Conversation With the Chinese Minister for Foreign Affairs (Chang Chun)86
In the course of a call upon the Minister for Foreign Affairs to-day I invited his attention to a conversation which I had had with him on March 2, 1936,87 at which time I had expressed the hope that the Chinese Government would give further consideration to a proposal of the United States for the establishment of a Sino-American Claims [Page 664] Commission, and he had promised that the Foreign Office would pursue an inquiry into various claims of which a list had been furnished the Foreign Office.
I stated that we were still interested in this matter, and I wondered what progress had been made. The Minister for Foreign Affairs promised to look into this question.
- Copy transmitted to the Department by the Ambassador in his despatch No. 1080, from Peiping, March 2; received April 6.↩
- See despatch No. 113, March 7, 1936, Foreign Relations, 1936, vol. iv, p. 579.↩