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

893.00B/12–1249: Telegram

The Consul General at Shanghai (McConaughy) to the Secretary of State

Shanghai, December 12, 1949—3 p. m.
[Received December 12—9:18 a. m.]

5169. Would Jessup¹¹ be interested in possibility of meeting Hong Kong in purely informal conversation a Communist representative from Peiping? If interested, think there is possibility of making approach here on very high level through person who we have excellent reason believe would be most sympathetic to idea and could be depended upon for great discretion in making such approach if she felt in position to undertake it. In strictest secrecy, person is Madame Sun Yat-sen.

McConaughy

11. Philip C. Jessup, Ambassador at Large, who was to make a tour of U.S. missions in the Far East.