Speech #890185506

In it he mentioned the "open door" policy of the United States. Had I been here when he made his speech. I would have asked him this question. Was it not true that the purpose of the open door policy was to safeguard the commercial interests of the United States against the possibility that European extraterritorial rights in China might become the means of gaining trade privileges at our expense? I intended to ask him that question when he was discussing this problem on page 4 of the manuscript. as the advance copy was handed to me. I ask the question rhetorically.