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Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1943, China

Discussion of negotiation of comprehensive commercial treaty between the United States and China


[639] Memorandum of Conversation, by the Chief of the Division of Far Eastern Affairs (Hamilton)

[Washington,] February 26, 1943.

793.003/1142


[640] The Department of State to the British Embassy

undated

611.9331/256


[641] Memorandum of Conversation, by Mr. Woodbury Willoughby of the Division of Commercial Policy and Agreements

[Washington,] May 7, 1943.

611.9331/256


[642] The Commercial Secretary of the British Embassy (Jopson) to the Adviser on Political Relations (Hornbeck)

Washington, June 23, 1943.

611.9331/257


[643] The Adviser on Political Relations (Hornbeck) to the Commercial Secretary of the British Embassy (Jopson)

[Washington,] July 5, 1943.

611.9331/257


[644] Memorandum by the Adviser on Political Relations (Hornbeck)

[Washington,] November 2, 1943.

611.9331/267

Contents

  • Preface
  • General wartime relations between the United States and China, with emphasis on China’s military position and United States efforts to give military assistance to China (Documents 1–150)
  • Political conditions in China; Sino-Soviet relations; attitude of the United States toward threatened Kuomintang–Communist conflict (Documents 151–321)
  • Financial relations between the United States and China:
    • I. Use of Stabilization Fund, exchange rates, implementation of U. S. credit to China, inflation problem in China, monopolies, etc. (Documents 322–387)
    • II. Termination of Chinese Stabilization Fund and Board which were established under provisions of Stabilization Agreement signed at Washington, April 1, 1941 (Documents 388–417)
    • III. Chinese request for a billion dollar loan from the United States (Documents 418–423)
  • Aid to China under the Lend-Lease program (Documents 424–440)
  • Difficulties of United States operations in China due to unfavorable exchange; negotiations with Chinese Government regarding a reverse Lend-Lease Agreement (Documents 441–504)
  • Efforts to establish a supply route to China via Iran, the Soviet Union, and Sinkiang (Documents 505–532)
  • Objections to proposed survey of a supply route to China via India, Afghanistan, and the Soviet Union (Documents 533–542)
  • Efforts to establish a supply route to China through Tibet; attitude of the United States toward status of Tibet (Documents 543–573)
  • Arrangements to obtain strategic materials for the United States from China (Documents 574–594)
  • Support by the Department of State of Chinese requests for planes for internal transport in China (Documents 595–620)
  • Interest of the United States in maintenance of administrative integrity of Chinese Maritime Customs; appointment of an American as Acting Inspector General of Customs (Documents 621–623)
  • Treaty between the United States and China for relinquishment of extraterritorial rights in China and the regulation of related matters, signed January 11, 1943
  • Agreement between the United States and China regarding jurisdiction over criminal offenses committed by American armed forces in China, effected by exchange of notes signed May 21, 1943 (Documents 624–632)
  • Attitude of the United States toward status of the China Foundation for the Promotion of Education and Culture after termination of the Boxer Protocol of 1901 (Documents 633–638)
  • Discussion of negotiation of comprehensive commercial treaty between the United States and China (Documents 639–644)
  • Protection of American lives and property in China and representations regarding bandit attack upon a United States Army convoy in Yunnan (Documents 645–653)
  • Opening of new American diplomatic and consular posts in China (Documents 654–659)
  • Cultural relations program of the Department of State to provide technical assistance to China and to facilitate greater cultural cooperation between the United States and China (Documents 660–684)
  • Representations by the Chinese Embassy concerning designations given to outlying provinces of China by certain American map makers (Documents 685–686)
  • Repeal of Chinese Exclusion Laws by the United States (Documents 687–700)
  • Negotiations with respect to the treatment of Chinese seamen in American ports (Documents 701–726)
  • Applicability of the Selective Service Act to Chinese students in the United States (Documents 727–728)
  • Refusal of the United States to permit the relay of Chinese broadcasts to South American countries through the United States (Documents 729–730)
  • Assistance by the United States in securing admission of China as a signatory to the Four-Power Declaration on General Security, signed at the meeting of Foreign Ministers in Moscow (Documents 731–751)
  • Exchange of views between the United States and China regarding the administration of liberated areas (Documents 752–761)
  • Interest of the United States concerning Chinese postwar planning (Documents 762–797)
  • Consideration of proposed entry of Chinese troops into Indochina to combat Japanese forces in that colony (Documents 798–804)
  • Taking over by Chinese Government of Yunnan section of French Indochina–Yunnan railway; expression of interest by the United States on behalf of the French (Documents 805–809)
  • Exchange of views between the United States and China regarding the future status of Korea and the question of recognizing a provisional Korean government
  • Index

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