893.74/310
The British Ambassador (Geddes) to the Secretary of State
Sir: I have the honour to inform you that His Majesty’s Government have recently had under consideration the recommendations for dealing with the question of wireless and cable communications in China which were signed by the experts attached to the American, British, French and Japanese delegations to the Washington Conference on February 4th, 1922.10
His Britannic Majesty’s Government are of opinion that these recommendations provide the best solution that can be devised for a very complicated problem and in these circumstances they feel it to be of real importance that the suggestions put forward by the experts should be generally approved and put into execution.
Some uncertainty exists, however, as to the position of the United States Government in connection with the matter, and in order that there may be no misunderstanding, I have the honour to enquire, by direction of His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, whether the United States Government have yet taken up a definite attitude with regard to the question of approving the observations of the experts.
I should be most grateful to receive, at an early date, an expression of the views of the United States Government on this question for communication to His Majesty’s Government.
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