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From Peking the U. S. Minister, John Van Antwerp MacMurray made a hurried trip to visit Baron Shidehara in Tokyo, endeavoring to convince the Japanese Foreign Minister of the soundness of his own views. What they said was naturally privy to themselves; but Mr. MacMurray is widely believed to favor much sterner measures toward China than are approved by President Coolidge; and consequently Baron Shidehara almost certainly was obliged to assume his most courteous, most waxlike smile...
...Hand. A long coded radio from Vice Admiral Charles S. Williams to U. S. Secretary of State Kellogg caused that statesman abruptly to change his mind as follows: He had instructed John Van Antwerp MacMurray, U. S. Minister at Peking, to hasten to Washington, hoping to delay action in the China crisis while he was in transit. Mr. MacMurray had duly set sail but when he reached Seoul, Korea last week, he was ordered back to Peking, went...
...China, the events of the last fortnight have definitely transformed the presumption that a strong Chinese Government is to be found in Peking to the possibility that it may be found in the not distant future at Canton. The U. S. Minister to China, John Van Antwerp MacMurray, sensitive to this trend, was reported to be in Canton last week, despite his previous announcement that he had left China for the Philippines. Simultaneously negotiations were reported progressing to end the anti-British boycott. The emergence of Canton from self-imposed boycott isolation to paramount importance loomed...
...Minister John Van Antwerp MacMurray, set out for Shanghai and there visited Super-Tuchun Sun. Embarking at Shanghai for Manila last week, Mr. MacMurray announced his intention of taking council with Governor General Leonard Wood of the Philippines as to the future Oriental policy...
...MacMurray was requested last month to cable home a list of the U.S. citizens then resident at Hsinyanchow, which was besieged by Wu (TIME, March 1). In reply came a list of U.S. citizens known to have been in that city one year previously. No later list was obtainable...