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

893.9111 RR/3–1449: Telegram

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

Shanghai, March 14, 1949.
[Received March 14—5:22 a. m.]

870. China Press March 14 carried Sun Fo statement on arrival Shanghai from Nanking last Saturday² that China should take neutral stand in event of third world war and be neither anti-US nor anti-USSR. Sun predicted Communists would join Soviet bloc when in control China. Also declared that China’s failure obtain satisfactory results from past foreign policy due to deterioration in relations among wartime allies which affected Chinese situation. According to Sun, China was not responsible for this state of affairs, and there had been “no big mistakes in China’s foreign policy”.

Sent Department, repeated Nanking 516, Canton 155.

Cabot

2. March 12.