760C.93 Manchuria/6: Telegram
The Counselor of Embassy in China (Lockhart) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 8—4:07 p.m.]
56. Hsinking today released Japanese text of notes exchanged between Polish and Manchurian Ambassadors at Tokyo alluded to in my 54, October 19, 5 p.m.35 Notes provide that pending conclusion of formal treaties covering such matters the two Governments agree on condition of reciprocity:
- (1)
- to accord most-favored-nation treatment to each other’s Consuls;
- (2)
- to accord to each other’s nationals most-favored-nation treatment in principle in respect to travel, residence, occupation, personal and property rights and social organization;
- (3)
- that the most-favored-nation treatment principle referred to in the preceding article shall not be applicable insofar as it affects joint defence with an allied nation or “special indivisible relations with contiguous countries based on military, political, racial and like conditions;”
- (4)
- to extend favorable treatment to each other’s trade and economic activity pending signing of a commercial treaty.
In releasing the text the Premier and high Hsinking officials, in addition to the usual solemn congratulation, gloated over the first legal admission by a third nation of their country’s indivisible relationship with Japan and presumably North China.
Repeated to Chungking.
- Not printed.↩