893.50 Recovery/7–248: Telegram
The Ambassador in China (Stuart) to the Secretary of State
[Received July 2—10:10 a.m.]
1200. Change in preamble to read “1948, and considering”.
Last sentence article II, paragraph 2, “trade which have the effect [Page 594] of interfering with the purposes and policies of this agreement” substituted for “trade which restrain …this agreement”.
Changes article IV as recommended Deptel 963, June 30 accepted.
Sub-paragraph of article V, paragraph 2, to be designated as (a), (b), (c), and with end of first sentence paragraph 2 (a) amended by substitution “that” for “the” in phrase “the special account”.
Article VI, paragraph 3, amended by substituting “America will cooperate, wherever appropriate to” for “America use its influence with its nationals to”.
New paragraph 3 of article XII contained Deptel 933, June 28 inserted with Roman numbering of old paragraph 3 to new paragraph 4. Final paragraph same article amended to read “this blank day of July 1948, corresponding to the blank day of the blank month of the 37th year of the Republic of China”.
Foreign Office agrees annex minutes 1, 5 and 6 language verbatim from Deptel 933, June 28. Text first paragraph exchange of notes contained Deptel 922, June 24 amended to read “I have the honor to refer to the conversations which have recently taken place between representatives of our two Governments on the conclusion of a bilateral agreement relative to the American Aid to China and to confirm the understanding reached as a result of these conversations”. ReDeptel 955, June 29,63 Embassy will start telegraphing restricted in sections articles as agreed other than the preamble and articles I, VII, VIII, IX, X and XI, all of which are verbatim (except change preamble indicated above) as contained in Deptels 921, June 24, or 927, June 25. Likewise Embassy will omit repeat of article III which runs unchanged from Deptel 923, June 24, up to penultimate word “article” of paragraph 3 with which word article as agreed now ends.
Sent Department 1200, repeated Shanghai 562.
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