840.51 Frozen Credits/3642: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Counselor of Embassy in China (Butrick), at Peiping
190. Your 279, September 25, 1 p.m.,70 request for report on Mukden Consulate’s assets.
You are authorized to instruct the Consul at Mukden that he inform the authorities, either by informal letter or by informal oral approach at Hsinking, as he thinks appropriate, that while the [Page 898] American Consulate General at Harbin and the American Consulate General at Mukden are under no legal obligation to comply with the regulations under reference, they are prepared voluntarily to supply all reasonable information concerning their assets. The Consul, however, might point out that this Government, as of September 16, waived in the case of the real property, furnishings and archives of foreign Embassies, Legations and Consulates in this country, including the Japanese and Chinese Embassies and Consulates, certain reports required under Executive Order No. 8389 (freezing order),71 and might express the hope that the Hsinking authorities will find it likewise unnecessary to require reports from American Consulates in Manchuria.72
Sent to Peiping. Repeated to Chungking. Peiping please repeat to Tokyo.
- Not printed.↩
- 5 Federal Register 1400.↩
- In response to this information, the Consul at Mukden reported at the end of November that the authorities in Manchuria “refused to release funds for November salaries and expenses until monthly reports of assets from August to date are made in addition to the previously required detailed applications for withdrawals. Reports are being made.” (840.51 Frozen Credits/4539)↩