Office of the Historian

893.00/3–2049: Telegram

The Ambassador in China (Stuart) to the Secretary of State

Nanking, March 20, 1949—1 p. m.
[Received March 20—12:44 a. m.]

611. Acting President went Shanghai March 18 for purpose: (1) Persuading K. C. Wu to remain on job (Wu exasperated by strong arm tactics new police chief Mao Shen and has threatened resign ostensibly on grounds ill health), and (2) overcome reluctance of certain liberals, such as O. K. Yui,30 to enter Ho Cabinet.

Sent Department, repeated Canton 178, Shanghai 218.

Stuart
  1. Governor of the Central Bank of China.↩