893.51 Salt Funds/189: Telegram
The Consul General at Shanghai (Lockhart) to the Secretary of State
[Received 8:10 p.m.]
839. Following from Tokyo:
“June 14, 2 p.m. Department’s 209, March 16, 5 p.m. and Embassy’s 185, March 19, 11 a.m.3 via Shanghai. Chinese Salt Administration. My British colleague informs me that his Government has under consideration the desirability of trying to secure from the Japanese Government an assurance that it recognizes the liability of the areas occupied by Japanese forces for their proper share of the foreign loan [Page 727] quotas for the servicing of the loans secured by the revenues of the Chinese Salt Administration, and has asked me whether we propose to take any further steps in the matter.
If the Department perceives no objection, and my British colleague is authorized to proceed along similar lines, I propose to leave with the Foreign Office an aide-mémoire referring to our aide-mémoire of March 19,4 and stating that the American Government would welcome assurances from the Japanese Government that it recognizes the liability of the areas under Japanese control for their proper shares of the loan quotas for the servicing of the American loans secured by the revenues of the Chinese Salt Administration.
Repeat to Hankow and Peiping and to the Department as our No. 378, June 14, 2 p.m.”
- Latter not printed.↩
- Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. i, p. 741.↩