893.00/3–2449: Telegram
The Minister-Counselor of Embassy in China ( Clark ) to the Secretary of State
[Received March 24—6:07 a. m.]
Cantel 165. Tending to confirm my belief likelihood Communist ultimatum on peace (my Cantel 153, March 22, repeated Nanking 132, Shanghai 95) is North Shensi broadcast March 23 which, after castigating Generalissimo, Li Tsung-jen, Ho Ying-chin and others as reactionaries organizing for war, continues: “Will Li Tsung-jen and his Ho Ying-chin Cabinet really accept and carry out the eight-point peace terms of the Communist Party and realize peace which the people need, thus giving themselves a chance to atone for their crimes? Or will they keep on utilizing the so-called ‘reasonable, just and general peace’ in order to pressure counter-revolutionary forces and cover up their plot of continuing the war? This will be proved in the very near future when peace negotiations are conducted.”
Sent Department, repeated Nanking 148, Shanghai 106.