893.01 Provisional/32: Telegram
The Counselor of Embassy in China (Lockhart) to the Secretary of State
[Received January 17—7:30 a.m.]
35. Caldwell45 inquires whether the Department’s policy as stated in paragraph 2 of your 400, December 15, 7 p.m.,46 applies with the same force to consular officers as it does to diplomatic officers, his feelings, in which I concur, being that the calls of consular officers do not convey quite the same implication as calls of diplomatic officers, and that in the ordinary course of business there is perhaps more necessity for consular officers to have contact with officials of Provisional Government than for members of the staff of the Embassy. Please clarify the point raised by Caldwell.
I received recently a call from Pan Yu Kwei, then Chief of Police under the Provisional Government, but did not return the call (with personal card) as Pan intimated that it was not necessary. I have been informed that further calls are to be made on me shortly by other municipal officials under the Provisional Government.
- John K. Caldwell, Consul General at Tientsin.↩
- Foreign Relations, 1937, vol. iii, p. 811.↩