Office of the Historian

125.7146/3–849: Telegram

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

Washington, March 11, 1949—6 p. m.

119. Urtel 368 March 8. Dept concurs recommendation last paragraph reftel but since circumstances may arise making desirable transmission occasional coded message urgent nature behalf your consular colleagues Dept prefers not instruct but leave matter your discretion.43

Acheson
  1. In telegram No. 839, May 16, noon, the Consul General informed the Department that he had informed the British Consulate that British code messages would be accepted in case of emergency (125.7146/5–1649).↩