Office of the Historian

893.00/3–2948: Telegram

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

Nanking, March 29, 1948.
[Received March 29—1:13 a. m.]

555. Opening ceremony of National People’s Assembly held March 29, 11 a. m., as scheduled. Generalissimo45 presided and made brief [Page 171] address to effect that opening of Assembly represented culmination of long and difficult revolutionary struggle. He said that political power was now being turned over to the people and that it would be the duty of all citizens to preserve and promote democracy and to respect the Assembly’s choice of President and Vice President. The 1600 delegates present took their oaths of office.

Stuart
  1. Chiang Kai-shek, President of the National Government of the Republic of China.↩