Office of the Historian

893.50 Recovery/7–348: Telegram

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

Nanking, July 3, 1948—11 a.m.
[Received July 3—12:11 a.m.]

1220. Deptel 973, July 2 received Embassy code room July 3, 8 a.m. and immediately decoded.

Embassy regrets deeply physical impossibility incorporating this change prior signing 3:15 this afternoon. In explaining to NAC, please point out Chinese official copy text hand engrossed requiring hours labor apart from difficulties changing all copies, English and Chinese, press release texts, including these already issued Shanghai.

Embassy had relied in closing with paragraph 5 unchanged on its statement re article 5 in Embtel 1189, June 3067 and on understanding received by Merchant in Cleveland telephone conversation noon July 2 that Embassy could assume NAC would not insist on its amendment. Lapham fully concurs this telegram.

Stuart
  1. Not printed; this telegram indicated that article V would stand “in absence [of] timely contrary word from Department.” (893.50 Recovery/6–3048)↩