Office of the Historian

611.9331/5–1149: Telegram

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

Nanking, May 11, 1949—5 p. m.
[Received May 12—2:02 a. m.]

998. We fully concur with Shanghai’s 1528, May 6 to Department and hope it will be possible for Tientsin Consulate personnel personally to perform shipping services for American vessels calling at Taku Bar. We believe we should miss no opportunity including this one, to impress Communists with fact that it is in their own interests for American Consulate to continue [to] function on Chinese soil.

Sent Department 998; repeated Shanghai 556, Embassy Canton 398, Hong Kong 25, Tientsin 29, Peiping 154.

Stuart