Foreign Relations of the United States, 1949, The Far East: China, Volume VIII

893.00/3–2449: Telegram

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

Nanking, March 24, 1949—11 a. m.
[Received 11:56 p. m.]

643. Re penultimate paragraph Peiping telegram 440 to Department March 19 [20]¹⁰ which translated CCP¹¹ article as explaining Soviet occupation of Dairen and Port Arthur as motivated by intention “to protect them from Japanese aggression”. In English Morse cast [English broadcast?] monitored by Embassy, Soviet occupation Dairen and Port Arthur was explained rather as move to protect them against “imperialist aggression in Far East” which, judging by tenor of article, refers principally to US.

Sent Department, repeated OffEmb Canton 188, Shanghai 294, Peiping 99.

Stuart

10. Not printed.
11. Chinese Communist Party.