Foreign Relations of the United States, 1948, The Far East: China, Volume VII

893.796/4–748: Telegram

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

Nanking, April 7, 1948—3 p. m.
[Received April 8—12:29 a. m.]

622. ReEmbtel 559 of March 30, 1 p. m. According to press reports, Soviet Government has now rejected second Chinese protest as groundless and insisting that CAT plane did in fact cross the boundary of Port Arthur Naval Base area. For information of Department, several CAT pilots have admitted privately that if CAT plane did not actually fly over the Port Arthur Naval Base area, it did come close enough to create a reasonable suspicion that it may well have done so.

Stuart