Office of the Historian

893.002/3–2249: Telegram

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

Nanking, March 22, 1949.
[Received March 22—7:28 a. m.]

615. Acting President announced personnel new Cabinet March 21. Chung Tang Jih Pao lists membership as follows:

Vice-Premier: Chia Ching-te.

Ministers without Portfolio: Chang Chih-chung, Chang Chun, Chu Chia-hua, Mo Te-hui, Ho Yao-tsu.

Secretary-General: Huang Chao-ku.

Deputy Secretary-General: Ni Chiung-sheng

Minister of Interior: Li Han-hun.

Foreign Affairs: Fu Ping-chang.38

Economy: Sun Yueh-chi.

Finance: Liu Kung-yun.39

Education: Han Li-wu.

National Defense: Hsu Yung-chang.

Communications: Tuan Mu-chieh.40

Justice: Chang Chih-pen.

Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission: Pai Yun-ti.

Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission: Tai Kuei-shang.

Bureau of Audit: Pang Sung-chou.

Acting President simultaneously promulgated revised organic law of Executive Yuan, reducing number of Ministries to those listed above, in accordance with measure previously passed by Legislative Yuan.

Repeated AmEmb Canton and Shanghai unnumbered.

Stuart
  1. Foo Ping-sheung, Chinese Ambassador in the Soviet Union.↩
  2. Known also as S. Y. Liu.↩
  3. Known also as Tuan Mu-kai (or Joseph K. Twammoh).↩