Office of the Historian

893.00/2–2349: Telegram

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

Canton, February 23, 1949.
[Received February 23—5:24 a. m.]

Cantel 74. Press report Acting President Li speaking to National Assembly delegates Canton stated that Government will not abandon peace efforts until peace becomes absolutely impossible and added, categorically, that should Communists begin attack Yangtze, peace would be considered impossible. Sent Department Cantel 74, repeated Nanking 70, Shanghai 2.

Clark