893.50 Recovery/6–2148: Telegram
The Ambassador in China (Stuart) to the Secretary of State
[Received 11:42 p.m.]
1109. For Department and ECA. Embassy transmitted to Foreign Office, by aide-mémoire date June 15, changes in draft bilateral contained in Deptel 873 of June 11, 7 p.m. (received June 13).
Foreign Office has now replied by aide-mémoire stating that it can agree to all referenced changes except paragraph 2 of article XII. Foreign Office suggests following substitute language: “The Government of China agrees to grant to the members of the Special Mission and the Joint Committee on Foreign Economic Cooperation of the Congress of the United States of America the privileges and immunities necessary to the effective performance of their responsibilities under the Act.”
In support Foreign Office points out that Department’s language so broad as to require extension diplomatic privileges to total personnel of mission whereas in case of Embassy and other diplomatic establishments such privileges and immunities are not extended to all employees. Embassy believes that Chinese Government will be entirely reasonable in extending privileges under its proposed language to all ranking individuals and accordingly recommends acceptance Chinese proposed language.
Repeated Shanghai 505.