Office of the Historian

893.50 Recovery/8–948: Telegram

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

Nanking, August 9, 1948—6 p.m.
[Received August 10—1:19 a.m.]

1466. Report from reliable Chinese source indicates that Wellington Koo saw President recently and has reported President as having promised to have his military people look into possibility further military aid China. This report has been greeted with enthusiasm in Nanking. If President made no such promise, it would be advisable for us to correct impression created in Nanking by Koo’s report. We assume, however, President was speaking of letter mentioned Deptel 1101, July 30.97

Stuart
  1. Not printed; it summarized the President’s letter of July 28 to the Secretary of State, p. 124 (893.50 Recovery/7–3048).↩