893.00B/7–2749: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Peiping (Clubb)
490. Dept considering instructing Amb to present aide mémoire to Huang Hua on eve of departure reciting intolerable actions and inquiring whether these perpetrated with view to making untenable position Amer reps in China and stating if so notification hereby given we are prepared close Emb and progressively Consulates as interests in area permit.
Dept wishes receive urgently your reaction and main outlines of character of note you wld advocate having not only current situation in mind but also that which will come to pass when Chi Commie auths organize themselves as govt, invite recognition and it is not readily forthcoming from US.
Wld not Dept be well advised seek opportunity to close Emb Nanking fol Ambs departure in view of likelihood Peiping being new capital and attempt make advantage out of eventual necessity?