893.9111 RR/1–1549: Telegram
The Ambassador in China (Stuart) to the Secretary of State
[Received January 16—5:46 a. m.]
121. CCP97 North Shensi broadcast January 13 is much more than comment on General Marshall’s resignation98 (Embtel 106, January 3 [13]99). It is also statement of foreign policy. Once again it re affirms fact CCP policy makers view outside world through Bolshevik rather than Chinese eyes.
Not Chinese and hardly national interests of Chinese people are served by such distorted and vitriolic references to Marshall as that he “resigned in disgrace”, that he is “two-faced”, that his “treacherous scheme” was a vicious imperialist policy toward China and that he is “wolf in sheep’s clothing”. That is language and logic of Cominform.
We have noted with little surprise CCP theses that “the Marshal Plan, which conducted aggression against Europe and war preparations under name of assistance, not only met with sterner action a hands of all new democratic countries but also met with firm opposition of broad masses of people in Western Europe. At present, united front against Marshall Plan is daily growing and strengthening throughout all Europe”.
Sent Department 121, repeated Shanghai 58, Moscow 2.
- Chinese Communist Party.↩
- For exchange of letters between General Marshall and President Truman January 3–7, see Department of State Bulletin, January 16, 1949, p. 86. On January 21 the oath of office as Secretary of State was taken by Dean G. Acheson; see ibid., January 30, 1949, p. 150.↩
- Not printed; it quoted an earlier broadcast denouncing General Marshal and American foreign policy (893.9111 RR/1–1349).↩