Echoes of Washington Conference: Chinese and Foreign Points of View: Straightforward Comment on Present Situation On July 2 an identical memo-random was despatched by. the United States. Secretary of State, Mr. Kellogg, to Mr. MacMurray, the American Minister in China, and to American diplomatic representatives at London, Paris, Tokyo and other interested capitals. 'The note urged the Powers to support the American policy conditional abolition of extraterritoriality. Tt was stated that "if the support of the Powers is obtained, the American conference Proposal' will be embodied in the reply of the foreign diplomatic corps at Peking to the unanswered Chinese note demanding abolition of If the Powers decline to send the proposed conciliatory reply to the Chinese note suggesting that China all a conference, then the United States government will formally call conference, which call the other Powers cannot easily reject.
It la significant that the British) Foreign Office made it clear, in memo-not ripe to take'up the question in view of the fact that a Chinese "government" is virtually non-existent at present.
view of much loose talking and} looser thinking on this question of extraterritoriality in China, so vital! not alone to foreigners' but to Chinese as well, it may be well to see how matters stand at the moment; for, ever since 1844—the date when "extraterritoriality was Jelearly laid down by treaties—it has been a thorn in the side of
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