Negotiation of treaty of friendship, commerce and navigation between the United States and China, signed at Nanking, November 4, 1946

[For previous correspondence, see Foreign Relations, 1945, Volume VII, pages 1258 ff. For text of treaty and protocol between the United States and China, signed at Nanking, November 4, 1946, see Department of State Treaties and Other International Acts Series No. 1871, or 63 Stat. (pt. 2) 1299. Ratification was advised by the Senate on June 2, 1948, with reservation and understandings. Ratifications were exchanged and the treaty entered into effect on November 30, 1948. For Department press release on the treaty, see Department of State Bulletin, November 10, 1946, page 866. Most of the correspondence related to the final wording of this treaty can be found in the files of the Department of State under 711.932.]