Office of the Historian

893.00/3–2749: Telegram

The Consul General at Peiping (Clubb) to the Secretary of State

Peiping, March 27, 1949.
[Received March 27—3:44 a. m.]

493. Peiping Hsin Hua radio station last night 1800 hours broadcast following, basic text of which is published all local papers today:

“Radio station of Nanking Kuomintang reactionary government please note. This station by order is now broadcasting to you an important notification. Please note and receive message as follows:

“As regards matter of undertaking peace negotiations with Nanking Kuomintang reactionary government, Chinese Communist Party Central Committee today decided:

  • “(1) Time of beginning negotiations, April 1;
  • “(2) Place of negotiations, Peiping;
  • “(3) Chou En-lai,52 Lin Po-chu,53 Lin Piao,54 Yeh Chien-ying,55 Li Wei-han56 designated as delegates, with Chou En-lai to be chief delegate, (to meet) with Nanking delegation using Chairman Mao Tse-tung’s January 14 statement regarding political situation, and eight points proposed by him, as basis for bilateral negotiations;
  • “(4) Above-mentioned points to be notified through radio station same day to Nanking Kuomintang reactionary government, (which should) according above-stipulated time and place dispatch its delegation bearing all requisite material needed for eight points in order facilitate undertaking negotiations.”

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Above version from Ta Chung Jih Pao.

Sent Department; Nanking 315, OffEmb Canton, Shanghai 352.

Clubb
  1. Member of Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and its representative at the Chinese capital during the 1946 negotiations.↩
  2. Also known as Lin Tsu-han, Communist official.↩
  3. Communist military commander in North China.↩
  4. Communist mayor of Peiping, formerly Chief of Staff.↩
  5. Communist representative in Chungking during early 1946.↩