Office of the Historian

893.00B/7–649: Telegram

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

Nanking, July 6, 1949.
[Received July 6—4:27 p. m.]

1448. Re Embtel 1447, July 6. Local Hsin Mm Pao July 2 reports meeting of propaganda department preparing for celebration July 7 of liberation Nanking, Shanghai, Hangchow. Shih Hsi-min, department deputy director, instructed members to strengthen anti-US imperialistic propaganda, demand early signing of Japanese peace treaty, stress this treaty must have concurrence of USSR and “the new China”, Chiang bandit group having no right to participate. Sent Department 1448; repeated Shanghai 806; Peiping 256.

Stuart