Office of the Historian

893.4061 MP/7–1448: Telegram

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

Nanking, July 14, 1948.
[Received July 22—8:07 a.m.]

1288. Embassy has received Foreign Office note stating that henceforth no foreign motion pictures may be shown in China either commercially or at an open showing on a non-commercial basis without prior censorship by Ministry’s Cinematograph Censoring Bureau. After censorship permit will be issued.

Sent Shanghai as 615; repeated Department as 1282 [1288].

Stuart