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...invaluable to any U. S. diplomat in the Orient. Such a linguist is Assistant Secretary of State Nelson Trusler Johnson (salary: $9,000). Last week President Hoover sent his name to the Senate for confirmation as U. S. Minister to China (salary: $12,000) to succeed John Van Antwerp MacMurray, resigned. Than Minister Johnson no U. S. diplomat is more versed in the customs and curiosities, the politics and problems of China where, as student interpreter, he began his foreign service career 22 years...
...German war boat since Berlin is exceedingly friendly to Nanking, except for the fact that the disarmed German Republic has never had in Chinese waters a war boat potent enough to thunder a proper salute. A recent trifling difference between U. S. Minister to China John Van Antwerp MacMurray, and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang resulted in cancellation of fully perfected plans that a U. S. war boat should fire the first "big gun" salute since the U. S. officially "recognized" the Nationalists months ago (TIME, Aug. 6). The failure of U. S. guns to boom seems an inexcusably missed trick...
...Tientsin was anchored many a war boat of the Powers, and U. S. Minister to China John Van Antwerp MacMurray appeared confident that these precautions would amply suffice to ensure the safety of U. S. citizens in Peking & Tientsin and permit their speedy evacuation if the Chinese Civil War should...
This triumphal return was set off and made the more notable by a furious counterblast of criticism from the British press of Hongkong. There the South China Post, the China Mail and the Hongkong Telegraph all insinuated that Minister MacMurray had settled on "too lenient terms," in order that the U. S. Republican party might point to a diplomatic victory on the eve of a U. S. presidential election...
Careful inspection of the British criticisms, however, showed that they were mainly based on an early and erroneous Chinese version of the MacMurray settlement. According to this report the U. S. Minister had "apologized" to the Chinese Nanking Government because during the "Nanking Outrage" two U. S. war vessels fired upon the city. The true facts of the case were not known until last week, when the U. S. State Department released the verbatim text of the MacMurray settlement, which consists of six notes exchanged between the U. S. Minister and Nationalist Foreign Minister Hwang Fu. Therein...