893.002/3–3049: Telegram
The Chargé in the Soviet Union (Kohler) to the Secretary of State
[Received March 30—6:49 a. m.]
786. Chinese Ambassador Foo informs me that after extensive telegraphic exchanges with his political friends in China, he feels obliged to accept proffered position Foreign Minister in Ho Cabinet (Embtel 729, March 2263). He intends communicate decision today and leave in near future. Ambassador explained his initial unsuccessful attempt refuse as due fear his nomination would be regarded as indicating pro-Soviet change in China’s foreign policy. He was at pains to assure me there would be no such change.
Repeated Nanking 34, Canton 3.
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