893.00/4–1849: Telegram
The Consul General at Shanghai (Cabot) to the Secretary of State
[Received April 18—6:05 a. m.]
1235. [To Nanking:] ReContel’s 1216 to Department April 17, repeated Nanking 696, Canton 273; 1234 to Department April 18, repeated Nanking 710, Canton 282.56 Evidence thus far available suggests: (1) That Acheson letter is welcomed by many politically alert Chinese in Shanghai (where peace sentiment strong), (2) that local Chinese in general accept letter as final proof that National Government will receive no more substantial American aid, (3) that some Chinese financial and political quarters, however, which have closely [Page 761] studied text, persist in feeling that hope for possible aid is still justified in light of letter’s penultimate sentence to effect that “further recommendation might be made” if situation “clarifies itself sufficiently.” Sent Nanking 711, repeated Department 1235, Canton 283.