Office of the Historian

893.00/6–948: Telegram

The Consul General at Peiping (Clubb) to the Secretary of State

Peiping, June 9, 1948.
[Received June 9—1:21 p. m.]

237. There is at present time in progress in Peiping a demonstration of approximately 400 students from the 5 principal Peiping universities and police guards have been stationed at the entrance of the ex-Legation quarter and of this Consulate General. Slogans issued in connection this demonstration and stamped with seal of Peiping University Students Self Govt Society are in original English as follows:

  • “1. We object to US rebuilding up the Japanese imperialism.
  • 2. We object to US sheltering and conniving at Japanese war criminals.
  • 3. We object to US reinforcement of the three biggest naval bases of Japan.
  • 4. We object to US reestablishment of Japanese air bases.
  • 5. We object to US breaking the Potsdam declaration.3
  • 6. We object to US rebuilding Japanese military industry.
  • 7. We protest against Ambassador Leighton Stuart’s statement threatening the people of China.
  • 8. We object to the US policy toward Japan which is at the expense of China.
  • 9. We object to US intriguing with the Japs to persecute overseas Koreans in Japan.
  • 10. We protest against our Govt’s persecution of patriotic students.
  • 12. Stop exporting iron ore, cotton, salt, sugar and other raw materials to Japan.
  • 13. Execute Okamura Neiji4 and Horiuchi Hoshishiro.
  • 14. Prevent a second ‘Marco Polo bridge incident’.5
  • 15. We demand the occupation of Japan by the Big Four.
  • 16. Peace conference about Japan be summoned at once.
  • 17. Down with the Japanese imperialism.
  • 18. The people of China and America stand up together to protest against US rebuilding up Japanese imperialism.
  • 19. Patriotic Chinese stand up to protest against the revival of Japanese Fascism.
  • 20. Patriotic Chinese stand up to overcome our national crisis.
  • 21. Long live the independent Chinese republic”.

Slogan No. 11, blocked out in copy of leaflet in possession this office, was originally as follows: “we object to the import tax on foreign merchandise, protect our national industry and commerce”. Parade is so far orderly.

Repeated Nanking 385, Shanghai 237, Tientsin.

Clubb
  1. For text of proclamation on terms of Japanese surrender as issued on July 26, 1945, by President Truman, President Chiang Kai-shek, and British Prime Minister Clement R. Attlee, see Foreign Relations, The Conference of Berlin (The Potsdam Conference), 1945, vol. ii, p. 1474.↩
  2. General Okamura commanded Japanese forces in China during the war.↩
  3. This incident on July 7, 1937, precipitated hostilities between Japan and China.↩