Office of the Historian

893.00/7–1649: Telegram

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

Canton, July 16, 1949—noon.
[Received July 16—11:02 a. m.]

Cantel 745. Anticipate no real difficulty obtaining Nationalist Government required permission safe passage either repatriation vessel [Page 1269] or planes (Nanking’s telegram 1486, July 12 to Department, repeated Canton 625, Shanghai 829). Foreign Office here has already given indication that it would consider requests to enter closed territories and has stated specifically that Anchises will be permitted to depart for Shanghai when ready do so.

Repeated Nanking 491, Shanghai 424.

Clark