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893.00/6–448: Telegram

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

Washington , June 4, 1948—5 p. m.

842. Full text by urgent tel Ambs Jun 4 speech or statement90 would be appreciated since some news agencies playing story as virtual US official demand to ChiGovt to suppress student movement on pain no more aid. One version asserts Amb on instructions Dept presented formal note ChiGovt demanding suppressions.

Marshall
  1. For text transmitted in telegram of June 5, by the Ambassador in China, see Department of State, United States Relations With China (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1949), p. 869.↩