893.00/4–1847: Telegram
The Ambassador in China ( Stuart ) to the Secretary of State
[Received April 18—4:05 a.m.]
838. Official Central News Agency made following announcement April 17 on reorganization of Government tentatively to become effective April 21:
“President Chiang56 today nominated the following persons as members of the new State Council: Sun Fo, Tai Chuan-hsien,57 Tsou Lu, Wang Chung-hui, Wang Shih-chieh, Wu Chung-hsin, Chen Chi-tien, Wu Hsien-tze, Mo Te-hui, Chu Cheng, Chang Chun, T. V. Soong, Chang Chia Hutuktu, Chiang Mon-lin, Chen Pu-lei, Ho Lu-tze, Hu Hai-men, Yu Yu-jen, Chang Chi, Wong Wen-hao, Shao Li-tze, Niu Yung-chien, Tseng Chi, Yu Chia-chu, Chi Yi-chiao, Wang Yun-wu, Bolhan,58 K. P. Chen.
One more member will be nominated later from the Democratic Socialist Party.
The whole list will be published officially by the National Government.
President Chiang has nominated the following persons as presidents of the five Yuan: Chang Chun, President of the Executive Yuan; Sun Fo, President of the Legislative Yuan; Chu Cheng, President of the Judicial Yuan; Yu Yu-jen, President of the Control Yuan; Tai Chuan-hsien, President of the Examination Yuan.
This afternoon the standing committee of the CEC59 at the suggestion of President Chiang elected Dr. Sun Fo as the Vice President of the National Government. It also approved the Kuomintang members of the State Council.”60
- Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, President of the National Government of the Republic of China.↩
- Tai Chi-tao.↩
- Burkhan or Pao Erh-han, representative of Turki of Sinkiang.↩
- Central Executive Committee.↩
- For statement by President Chiang announcing the reorganization of the State Council and for text of the political program of the National Government of China, see Department of State, United States Relations With China (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1949), pp. 739 and 740, respectively.↩