740.00119 P.W./9–646: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in China (Stuart)
Washington, September 6,
1946—6 p.m.
721. In confidential conversation here in Dept. with Russian representative on Far Eastern Commission in regard to reparations from Japan, the representative has stated that “negotiations are proceeding between China and the USSR” in regard to “war booty” which has not been removed from Manchuria. Please make discreet inquiry as to whether there are in fact any such negotiations and if there are endeavor to ascertain their character.
Clayton