393.11/828: Telegram
The Minister in China (MacMurray) to the Secretary of State
[Received June 12—10:44 a.m.]
457. Your telegram number 184, June 8, 8 [5] p.m. I strongly advise against making any reply to the Nanking Foreign Office note of June 2nd,78 which, by sufficiently clear implication, acquiesces in the necessity of our armed forces at this date for the safeguarding of our nationals there under the prevailing conditions of insecurity and uncertainty. Any attempt to set forth the point more explicitly would seem certain to elicit from the new Nanking Minister for Foreign Affairs, C. T. Wang, rejoinder confusing the whole issue and seeking to put us in the wrong.