Foreign Relations of the United States, 1949, The Far East: China, Volume IX

693.0031/3–2149: Telegram

The Consul General at Shanghai (Cabot) to the Secretary of State

Shanghai, March 21, 1949—noon.
[Received March 21—12:51 a. m.]

948. British Ambassador⁸ informs me British cannot use noncertified consular invoices (reContel 5 [to] Nanking, 922 March 17, 7 p. m., to Department,⁹ 44 Hong Kong, 86 Peiping, 26 Tientsin) as means for putting pressure on Communists to deal with western consulates since British don’t issue consular invoices. British are further studying question.

Sent Nanking 553, repeated Hong Kong 46, Department and Tientsin 29.

Cabot

8. Sir Ralph Stevenson.
9. Not printed.