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...frank, alert and quizzical air is characteristic of the young U. S. Minister to China, John Van Antwerp MacMurray. Last week he entered Peking amid circumstances sufficiently triumphal to have made a lesser diplomat turn smug. During the past month he has been "down South" in Shanghai, negotiating with the Nanking Nationalist Government a settlement of the claims of U. S. citizens arising out of the "Nanking Outrage" of last year (TIME, April 4), when much U. S. property was looted by Chinese and one U. S. citizen killed. That Minister MacMurray had successfully concluded these negotiations became known recently...
Last week the wiping process began in earnest when six diplomatic notes simultaneously changed hands at Shanghai, between Nationalist Foreign Minister Huang-Fu and the U. S. Minister to China, John Van Antwerp MacMurray. Nanking promised in substance that: 1) reparation will be made to U. S. citizens who suffered when the city was captured; 2) the Chinese who looted and in one instance murdered will be punished, and, 3) hereafter, U. S. citizens will enjoy protection and security in Nanking...
...order that the Nanking Government should not "lose face" in China by making these promises, Minister MacMurray assured Nationalist Huang-Fu that the U. S. State Department is "willing to express regret" that it was necessary for a U. S. river gunboat to bombard Nanking during the troublous times...
...prestige of the Nationalist Government has recently been enhanced by visits to Nanking from the Japanese, British and French ministers accredited to Peking; and last week U. S. Minister John Van Antwerp MacMurray followed their lead and began a tour through Nationalist territory...
...several armies toward Peking. The reaction of U. S. President Coolidge to this situation was to inform reporters that the removal of the U. S. Legation from Peking down to the seacoast at Tientsin, or even 650 miles southward to Shanghai, was contemplated. The reaction of John Van Antwerp MacMurray, alert, pugnacious U. S. Minister at Peking, was to keep the cables busy with code messages which legation officials privately said were appeals for instructions to stand pat at Peking. . . . This meant that Minister MacMurray was looking out for troops to defend the Legation from possible captors of Peking. Late...