Office of the Historian

125.8571/11–2149: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Shanghai (McConaughy)

Washington, December 8, 1949—6 p. m.

2391. Stated urtel 4862 Nov 21 “Shanghai not yet faced problem registration property”. Have Commie auths Shanghai issued reg[ulation]s re registration property? If so or if auths shld do so, Dept assumes ConGen will tele translation text regs.

For ur info Dept has instructed ConGens Tientsin Peiping,61 in connection with Commie regs requiring registration real property of aliens those cities by certain dates, transmit to local Commie auths statement reserving rights absentee Amer owners real property. Dept has issued press releases giving this info.62

Acheson
  1. See telegram No. 764, November 2, 5 p.m., p. 1113.↩
  2. See Department of State Bulletin, November 21, 1949, p. 760; November 1949, p. 800; December 5, 1949, p. 868a; December 26, 1949, p. 957.↩