Office of the Historian

893.00/1–2449: Telegram

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

Shanghai, January 24, 1949.
[Received January 24—6:30 a. m.]

235. Press 24th reports arrival Shanghai on 23rd Li Tsung-jen’s personal adviser Kan Chieh-hou to persuade “third party” leaders to go to Nanking to assist Govt in revising [reviving?] peace talks with Communists, and that Chang Chih-chung and Shao Li-tse are expected to arrive today on similar mission.

Tribiune reports Kan has seen Mme. Sun Yat-sen49 and delivered letter from Li requesting her support but that she had declined invitation to act as official mediator. Kan also scheduled to call on Democratic League leaders Chang Lan, Huang Yen-pei and Lo Lung-chi and upon Carsun Chang, chairman Democratic Socialists.

Sent Nanking 177, repeated to Department 235.

Cabot
  1. Sister of T. V. Soong, Madame H. H. Kung, and Madame Chiang Kai-shek; widow of the founder of the Kuomintang and the Chinese Republic.↩