793.003/943 Suppl.: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in China (Gauss)
979. Department’s 946, October 10, 2 p.m.56 It has been arranged that I shall hand to the Chinese Ambassador here at 10 o’clock Saturday morning, October 24, the text of a draft treaty. I shall ask the Chinese Ambassador to regard the text as confidential until agreement thereon has been reached between this Government and the Chinese Government. After the Chinese Ambassador has called and received the text we shall inform the press that we have given the Chinese Ambassador a draft treaty for consideration of his Government.
You may inform the Chinese Government in confidence of our proposed action.
Our draft text which will be handed to the Chinese Ambassador here is along the lines indicated in the Department’s telegram under reference. We are not at this time communicating the text to you because of obvious difficulties in connection with its transmission.
[Here follows report of discussions with the British Government regarding parallel action.]