Office of the Historian

893.50 Recovery/4–948: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Secretary of State, at Bogotá

Washington, April 15, 1948—noon.

Telmar 66. With reference to the last para of Martel 28 of Apr 7 and to Martel 36 of Apr 9, FE and S/P90 are of the opinion that it would be unwise at this time to reopen the question of so-called short-term [Page 56] assistance to China, since the National Security Council has postponed indefinitely its consideration of the problem.91

Unless you wish to press the Defense Establishment for clarification immediately, Dept proposes to defer seeking suggested clarifications until it is prepared to present basic paper on our position regarding China on which it is now working.

Lovett
  1. Office of Far Eastern Affairs and Policy Planning Staff, respectively.↩
  2. At a meeting on April 2 the National Security Council agreed that NSC6 had been overtaken by events and deferred further action on the subject of China pending receipt of a position paper from the Department of State.↩