893.00/3–647: Telegram
The Ambassador in China (Stuart) to the Secretary of State
[Received March 6—4:02 a.m.]
462. In the course of Minister-Counselor’s conversation with Foreign Minister, the latter expressed himself as reasonably hopeful about the prospects of appropriate reorganization of an Executive Yuan and of the organization of St[ate] Council. He said that Carson Chang and his group of Social Democrats had now received the Govt’s proposals and were returning to Shanghai to meet and consider their party’s position. In this connection reference is made to Embtel 372, Feb. 25. The Youth Party would participate, but the Democratic League had, he said, moved further leftward in its attitude of cooperation with the Communists.