Office of the Historian

840.50 Recovery/6–2648: Telegram

The Ambassador in China (Stuart) to the Secretary of State

Nanking, June 26, 1948—6 p.m.
[Received June 26—8:11 a.m.]

1159. Your 920 and 921, both June 24, 11 p.m., received today. Embassy appalled at number and magnitude substantive and language changes. Will exercise best efforts renegotiate agreement basis latest text but in light chronic transmission delays, difference in time, code room load, period required by Foreign Office for interministerial concurrences and necessity to produce Chinese text then requiring Embassy check, main [in] combination forces Embassy request Department maximum latitude in negotiation insofar as form and language are concerned provided substance preserved. Please confirm Niact.42

Sent Department 1159, repeated Shanghai 531.

Stuart
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