026 China/8–1749: Telegram
The Chargé in China (Clark) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 17—12:05 p. m.]
Cantel 968. Following statement by Yeh, Acting Minister Foreign Affairs, on White Paper is, we gather, only action contemplated Nationalist Government that respect:
The Chinese Government has read the White Paper on United States relations with China issued by the Department of State of the United States of America. It is a source of satisfaction to note that the American Government has come to share with the Chinese Government [Page 1398] the two fundamental views which the Chinese Government has consistently maintained, namely, first, the Chinese Communists are thorough Marxists and tools of Moscow, and secondly, the Soviet Union has violated both in letter and spirit the Treaty of Friendship and Alliance between China and the Soviet Union concluded in 1945. At the same time the Chinese Government must declare that it takes serious exception to the views and statements on many other important questions contained in the White Paper. It is not the intention of the Chinese Government to engage in controversy over past issues to the detriment of the traditional friendship between the Chinese and American peoples and the common cause of the democracies. However, the Chinese Government in consideration of its stand and obligations will state more fully at an appropriate time its position and the relevant facts with regard to the various complex subjects dealt with in the voluminous White Paper for the information of the Chinese and American public so as to further the mutual understanding and cordial relations between the two peoples.
Sent Department Cantel 968; repeated Nanking 636, Shanghai 503, Taipei 130.