893.77/3–1345
The Chargé in China (Atcheson) to the Secretary of State
[Received March 24.]
Sir: I have the honor to refer to the Department’s third person instruction no. 46 of February 15, 1945 quoting a statement from an article entitled “Pillars of Peace for the Pacific” appearing in the April 1944 edition of Free World.
The author of the article, Dr. Wu Nan-ju, is now the Director of Protocol of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In reply to an informal inquiry, Dr. Wu informed a member of the Embassy staff in confidence that he was Chargé d’Affaires in Moscow at the time of the sale of the Chinese Eastern Railway to “Manchukuo” and that under instructions from his Government he personally protested against the sale made by the Russian authorities without the consent of the Chinese Government. He said that he telegraphed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs the substance of the oral reply, as indicated in the article, made to his protest and that therefore the Chinese Government doubtless has a record of the Soviet commitment.
Respectfully yours,