Office of the Historian

125.6336/6–2049: Telegram

The Minister-Counselor of Embassy in China (Clark) to the Secretary of State

Canton, June 20, 1949.
[Received June 20—2:16 a. m.]

Cantel 614. Following statement released press June 20:

“Communist charges that the American Consulate General in Mukden was engaged in espionage are ridiculous and absolutely false. The Communists may have levelled such charges in order to distract attention from the fact that they have held the American Consul General and his staff incommunicado for the past 7 months in violation of international law and custom.”

Sent Department; repeated Nanking 412, Shanghai 350.

Clark