Foreign Relations of the United States, 1949, The Far East: China, Volume VIII

893.00/4–1149: Telegram

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

Nanking, April 11, 1949—11 a. m.
[Received April 11—3:23 a. m.]

744. Ho Ying-chin’s visit Canton considered here beneficial and to have contributed measurably to better understanding, cooperation between Nanking Government and Canton Kmt factions. Premier and President Legislative Yuan⁴ inform us they brought back following four conditions as Canton requirements for acceptable peace:

(1) Peace terms must protect welfare of Chinese people, economic, human rights, etc.

(2) They should preserve Chinese cultural tradition.

(3) They should be in accord with principles of UN.

(4) Cease-fire order is necessary to prove sincerity of CCP and this must mean no crossing of Yangtze.

Ho and Tung Kuan-hsien find conditions much more moderate than might have been expected from extreme right-wing of party and are accordingly encouraged at prospects unity between Nanking and Canton in Government’s continuing peace efforts.

Sent Department; repeated Embassy Canton 240, Shanghai 357.

Stuart

4. Tung Kuan-hsien.