Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1937, The Far East, Volume III

893.00/14025: Telegram

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

Nanking, March 3, 1937—3 p.m.
[Received March 3—2:30 p.m.]

103. My 96, February 27, 10 a.m.

1. The Central Political Committee this morning accepted resignation of Foreign Minister Chang Chun and Minister of Communications Ku Meng Yu and made following appointments: Wang Chung Hui to be Minister for Foreign Affairs; Chang Chun to be Secretary General of the Central Political Committee and Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Political Committee; Tsing Chung King, former Vice Minister of Railways under Wang Ching Wei, to be Deputy Secretary General of the Central Political Committee; Yu Fei Peng, Vice Minister of Communications, to be Minister of Communications.

2. To Department and Peiping.

Johnson