Office of the Historian

893.48/1096: Telegram

The Counselor of Embassy in China (Peck) to the Secretary of State

Nanking, May 25, 1936—9 a.m.
[Received May 25—1:21 a.m.]

156. Your 35, May 21, 2 p.m.36 The Embassy has received a formal note dated May 23, 1936, addressed to the American Ambassador by the Chinese Minister for Foreign Affairs over the official seal of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs which states that the Chinese Ambassador at Washington under instructions from the Chinese Government has negotiated with the second Export-Import Bank37 a draft agreement for the revision of the schedule of payments of the flood relief loan of 1931 and the cotton and wheat loan of 1933, and that the Chinese Ambassador has received authority to sign this agreement on behalf of the Chinese Government. This constitutes adequate evidence of the authority of the Ambassador to sign. Note proceeding in the next pouch.37a By mail to Peiping.

Peck
  1. Not printed.↩
  2. The Counselor of Embassy in China in his telegram No. 160, May 29, 9 a.m., reported that the Chinese Ministry for Foreign Affairs had replaced the above-mentioned note with another of the same date using the name “Export Import Bank of Washington.” (983.48/1098)↩
  3. Dated May 29, not printed.↩