811.42700 SE/6–647: Telegram

The Ambassador in China (Stuart) to the Secretary of State

1227. Reference Embassy’s telegram 1155, May 27. Department’s proposals in its restricted airmail instruction number 346, May 21,18 have been received and are now being studied by the Embassy.

Ministry of Education had indicated its willingness to initiate preliminary discussions on Fulbright Bill Agreement but has had to postpone them again because of preoccupation with current student difficulties throughout China.19

Stuart
  1. Not printed; it transmitted “Tentative Proposals for the First Year of the Fulbright Program in China”.
  2. For correspondence on this subject, see pp. 130 ff., passim.