Office of the Historian

893.50 Recovery/6–2249: Telegram

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

Washington, June 22, 1949—7 p. m.

TelCan 369. Clark authorized negotiate extension JCRR agreement in consultation with Moyer accordance Ecato 257 June 21.29 Dept and ECA suggest fol draft note to Chi Govt:

“I have the honor to refer to the agreement between our two Govts constituted by the exchange of notes dated August 530 providing for the establishment of a Sino-American Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction in China.

My Govt proposes that the agreement be extended until the date of termination of the Economic Aid Agreement between our two Govts concluded July 3, 1948, and that references in the exchange of notes to Section 407 of the China Aid Act of 1948 be deemed to include reference to Section 12 of Public Law 47, 81st Congress.

This note and Your Excellency’s reply accepting the above proposal will constitute an agreement between our two Govts.”

Acheson
  1. Not printed.↩
  2. For texts, see Department of State, Treaties and Other International Acts Series No. 1848; or 62 Stat. (pt. 3) 3139. For correspondence preceding exchange, see Foreign Relations, 1948, vol. viii, pp. 601 ff.↩