Office of the Historian

125.633/10–449: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Consul General at Peiping (Clubb)

Washington, October 4, 1949—6 p. m.

682. In view recent developments Peiping93 Dept believes it desirable, unless you perceive objection thereto, that you informally and in personal capacity approach Chou En-lai94 by such means as you consider desirable re evacuation Mukden ConGen staff. While Dept leaves substance to ur judgment, it believes that you might call attn to approaching winter and express earnest hope staff be permitted leave prior to incidence cold weather which under existing conditions wld impose extreme hardship endanger health staff.95

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  1. For information on establishment on October 1 of Communist “Central People’s Government of the People’s Republic of China”, see telegram No. 1666, October 1, from the Consul General at Peiping, p. 544.↩
  2. Premier and Foreign Minister of the Communist regime at Peiping.↩
  3. For information on action taken, see telegram No. 1707, October 10, 3 p. m., from the Consul General at Peiping, vol. ix, p. 117.↩