Office of the Historian

893.00/9–2949: Telegram

The Second Secretary of Embassy in China (Bacon) to the Secretary of State

Nanking, September 29, 1949—3 p. m.
[Received September 29—5:30 a. m.]

2190. Although CCP and PLA as such allotted only 18 seats on 89–man Presidium of PCC, careful study of same list reveals at least 35 Presidium members are known members CCP.

Sent Department; repeated Peiping 375.

Bacon