893.76/90: Telegram
The Consul General at Shanghai (Gauss) to the Secretary of State
[Received March 2—4:01 p.m.]
347. Your 176, February 28, 6 p.m. I have done what I could to urge upon the Japanese authorities the need for improved radio service with the United States and have asked for earnest consideration of the recent proposal for committee management. There is nothing more that I can do here and I do not believe there is anything that can be done elsewhere now in the matter. As the Department is aware from my several messages, the failure of early proposals on the committee [Page 287] managed international radio service was due to the opposition and refusal of Shecklen, the R.C.A. representative, to support the proposals and his attempt to put the Chinese Government radio service under the protection of the American flag. I learn unofficially that the Japanese have told Shecklen and representatives of other radio interests that the reply to the proposal now made for committee management will be in the negative. I also learn that the Japanese are now working on the installation of additional transmitting equipment.