Office of the Historian

893.002/6–1349: Telegram

The Minister-Counselor of Embassy in China (Clark) to the Secretary of State

Canton, June 13, 1949.
[Received June 13—3:38 p. m.]

Cantel 579. Following complete list Yen Hsi-shan Cabinet announced Saturday June 11.

Vice President Executive Yuan—Chu Chia-hua.15

Secretary General Executive Yuan—Chia Ching-teh.16

Ministers,

  • National Defense—Yen Hsi-shan concurrently;
  • Foreign Affairs—Hu Shih;17
  • Interior—Li Han-hun;18
  • Finance—Hsu Kan;
  • Communications—Tuan Mu-chieh;19
  • Economic Affairs—Liu Hang-shen;20
  • Education—Han Li-wu;21
  • Justice—Chang Shih-pen;22

Commissions—

  • Mongolian-Tibetan Affairs—Kuan Chi-yu;23
  • Overseas Chinese Affairs—Tai Kuei-sheng;24

Ministers without Portfolio:

  • Chen Li-fu,
  • Chang Chun25 (resigned June 12)
  • Wu Tieh-cheng,26
  • Huang Shao-ku,27
  • Hu Yung-chang,28
  • Wang Shih-tien (Young China Party).

Dept pass VOANY.29

Sent Dept Cantel 579, repeated Nanking 387, Shanghai 328.

Clark
  1. Chinese Minister of Education, 1944–48.↩
  2. Vice President of the Chinese Examination Yuan, 1948–49.↩
  3. Chinese Ambassador to the United States, 1938–42.↩
  4. Governor of Kwangtung, 1938–45.↩
  5. Secretary-general of the Chinese Judicial Yuan.↩
  6. Former Chinese Vice Minister of Food.↩
  7. Chinese Vice Minister of Education.↩
  8. Grand Justice of the Chinese Judicial Yuan.↩
  9. Chinese Minister of Food.↩
  10. Chinese Vice Minister of the Kuomintang Board of Overseas Affairs.↩
  11. President of the Chinese Executive Yuan, 1947–48; Military and Political Affairs Director for Southwest China.↩
  12. Vice President of the Chinese Executive Yuan, 1948–49.↩
  13. Chinese Acting Minister of the Kuomintang Ministry of Information.↩
  14. Chinese Minister of National Defense.↩
  15. Voice of America, New York.↩