711.93/446: Telegram
The Consul at Shanghai (Butrick) to the Secretary of State
[Received July 3—4 a.m.]
590. Lian Ur Chang, who occasionally calls at this office and at our office in Nanking, and is connected with the Wang Ching-wei regime, although he states he has not taken up any official position as yet, called today. He said that the Wang Ching-wei regime desires to be friendly with the United States and that he felt, and he knew that Doctor Chu Min-yi, the Nanking Minister of Foreign Affairs, felt that the United States should take advantage of the presence in Washington of T. V. Soong to urge upon him the necessity for peace and reconstruction in China, to be attained through a union of the Wang regime and the Chungking Government. He pointed out that both had the same president, Lin Sen. He also brought up the question of the functioning of the Special District Courts in the Settlement which he felt should be administered by the Wang Ching-wei regime.99 I said I saw no necessity for any change in the courts and informed him that I could not in any way act as a means of conveying the opinions of the Wang regime to the American Government.
[Page 381]Sent to the Department. Repeated to Chungking, Peiping and Nanking.