Office of the Historian

740.00119 PW/3–2746: Telegram

The Counselor of Embassy in China (Smyth) to the Secretary of State58

Chungking, March 27, 1946—3 p.m.
[Received 9 p.m.]

577. This afternoon Vice Minister [for] Foreign Affairs Liu Chieh informed me that Foreign Office replied today to Soviet Ambassador’s note (see Embassy’s 552 March 23), stating that Chinese Govt, agreed to date, end of April, for withdrawal Soviet forces from Manchuria, but requesting that Soviet Govt, furnish definite schedule of Soviet troop withdrawals.

Smyth
  1. Repeated by the Department to the Embassy in the Soviet Union in telegram No. 590, March 80, 1 p.m.↩