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

125.313/12–949

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

No. 168

Peiping, December 9, 1949.
[Received January 24, 1950.]

The Consul General has the honor to enclose, for purposes of record, copies (in English original only) of his letters of December 1 and December 8, 1949 to General Chou En-lai⁷² informing the latter of the closure severally of the American consular offices at Chungking, Kunming and Mukden,⁷³ and of the take-over at the same time by the respective British consular offices of matters pertaining to American interests at those several places.

O. E[dmund] C[lubb]

72. Neither printed; they were addressed to “General Chou En-lai, Peking” and were signed “O. Edmund Clubb” without indication of office. General Chou was Communist “Premier and Foreign Minister of the People’s Republic of China”.
73. At close of business on November 19 and 30 and December 6, respectively.