Office of the Historian

693.0031/4–2649: Telegram

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

Shanghai, April 26, 1949—7 p. m.
[Received April 27—6:39 a. m.]

1379. Soviets evidently making strenuous effort partially fill Commie needs North China for petrol and motor transport, Tientsin’s 256, April 22 [19], 6 a. m.[5 p. m.], to Department,52 for apparent purposes strengthen economic ties, support propaganda lines, make possible independence French [from] capitalist USA and British, adopt closer economic alignment with USSR and promotion state trading procedures most advantageous to Commies and USSR.

Sent Department 1379, repeated Nanking 794, Canton 342.

Cabot
  1. Not printed; it reported certain trade transactions between Chinese Communists and the Soviet Union (693.0031/4–1949).↩