893.74/269: Telegram
The Minister in China (Schurman) to the Secretary of State
[Received February 16—9:10 a.m.]
60. My telegrams no. 47 of February 10, 7 p.m., and no. 54 of February 14, 12 p.m. I take the liberty of suggesting that you should impress upon the Chinese Chargé at Washington that the immediate carrying out of the Federal Telegraph Company’s agreement is necessary in order to maintain Chinese sovereign rights to unrestricted communications and control of radio facilities and particularly to make possible the continuance of good relations between China and the United States. I have every hope that the Chinese would choose the advantages offered them by the Federal Telegraph Company’s contract rather than submit to the intimidation of the Japanese and that the present state of vacillation would be overcome [Page 785] if the Chinese Chargé could be induced to cable his Government a report of such strong representations from you.
It would be of the greatest value to have a reaffirmation of the position taken by the Department in its telegram no. 242 of August 29, 1921.93