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

123 [Isaac Patch]: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in China (Stuart)³⁰

Washington, August 9, 1948—7 p. m.

1146. ReEmbtels 1468 and 1469, August 9. Dept perceives no objection release proposed statement by Patch with following deletions: Para 3 in entirety; Para 5 in entirety; final sentence of last paragraph. These deletions believed desirable in order avoid causing embarrassment Paddock³¹ and repercussions Dairen.³²

This connection request Emb henceforth encode telegrams this nature.

Marshall

30. Repeated to the Consul General at Shanghai as No. 1449 on the same date.
31. Paul E. Paddock, Jr., Consul at Dairen.
32. The Consul General at Shanghai stated in his telegram No. 1773, August 10, 4 p. m.: “Corrections made in Patch statement as directed. At request of Patch following additional matter also deleted—all of paragraph 2 and sentence in next to last paragraph which said he ‘was denied access to the bathing beaches’. Corrected text released.”