893.00/6–148: Telegram
The Consul General at Shanghai (Cabot) to the Secretary of State
[Received June 1—5:14 a. m.]
1226. No incident reported on local campuses during May 30 demonstrations. Following day free-for-all occurred at Shanghai College of Law when group students insisted adding huge photo Mao Tse-tung to exhibition anti-American Japan aid posters and news articles. Police interference ended fight. Five students reported seriously injured and removed hospital. Trouble again broke out between opposing groups during meeting later in day.
Anti-American demonstration planned by St. John’s students 31 ordered banned by President Tu who instructed student council confine meeting solely installation its officers. Order ignored and meeting dealt with American-Japan policy. Resolution passed urging American people elect Wallace81 next president. Meeting sparsely attended due heavy rainfall. University authorities preparing take action against students for disobedience order.
News despatch from Foochow reports anti-American movement growing in Fukien and that parade of 3,000 Amoy students held on 30.
- Henry A. Wallace, Vice President, 1941–45; Presidential candidate of Progressive Party, 1948.↩