Foreign Relations of the United States, 1948, The Far East: China, Volume VII

125.6336/11–1848: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Consul General at Mukden (Ward)

Washington, November 22, 1948—noon.

216. Dept judges your unnumbered tel 4 p. m. 18th⁵⁶ Communists have seized and taken physical possession your radio transmitter and notes essential difference between ordering you cease use radio and outright seizure US Govt property. Dept takes serious view latter action and suggests unless you consider such action unwise you protest vigorously this or any other seizure US Govt property, keeping in mind Deptel 187 Nov 2.

Lovett

56. See telegram No. 2464, November 18, from the Consul General at Shanghai, p. 837.