661.9331/10–2846: Telegram
The Ambassador in China (Stuart) to the Secretary of State
[Received 11:50 p.m.]
1755. Further information obtained re Embassy’s telegram 1597, October 5, 9 a.m., is being embodied in a despatch.52 It comes to this: The responsible Foreign Office officials concerned with Manchuria maintain that no authoritative discussions regarding Soviet-Manchurian trade had taken place since the capital moved to Nanking and that Dr. Soong must have had in mind the counterproposal made by the Chinese in late March which was rejected by the Russians (see Embassy’s telegram 572, March 26, 5 p.m.). The present repatriation of Soviet railway officials from Mukden area is rightly regarded by Chinese Foreign Office as a significant gesture of dissatisfaction, and there is suppressed nervousness about the situation as indicated in final paragraph of Embassy’s telegram 1704, October 20, 9 a.m.53
[Correspondence regarding Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley’s reparations mission to the Far East, including Manchuria, is printed in Volume VIII, pages 471 ff. For summary accounts, see Department of State Bulletin, August 4, 1946, page 233 and December 22, 1946, page 1154.]