893.42/232: Telegram
The Chargé in China (Perkins) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 14—1:05 p.m.]
627. 1. C. T. Wang has telegraphed the Legation that Lo Chia-lun will be appointed president of Tsing Hua College and Mei Yi-chi as director of Tsing Hua students in the United States.
2. Lo, who recently has been head of a Kuomintang school in Nanking, is a close adherent of Chiang Kai-shek20 and a favorite of Tsai Yuan-pei.21 He graduated from Peking University and had some two years at Columbia.
3. Mei Yi-chi, for some time dean, has latterly been acting president of Tsing Hua.
4. The Minister merely acknowledged Wang’s telegram and refrained from expressing either approval or disapproval.