Office of the Historian

893.00/3–149: Telegram

The Ambassador in China (Stuart) to the Secretary of State

Nanking, March 1, 1949.
[Received March 2—1:21 a. m.]

501. Yi Shih Pao March 1 carries statement on current situation by 50 Nanking professors headed by Liu Pu-tung, prominent legislator, and Ni Ching-yuan, Dean of College of Liberal Arts, Nanking. Statement makes following points:

1.
Since people all demand peace, they are dissatisfied with Government leaders who are inconsistent and waver between peace and war.
2.
To demonstrate peace sincerity both sides must stop war preparation. Today only small number of privileged people such as warlords and bureaucrats do not want peace.
3.
China needs thorough social reform and the evil influences of feudalism, imperialism and bureaucratic capitalism must be uprooted.
4.
Interference by any friendly nation in China’s domestic affairs or proffer of military aid to prolong China’s civil war should be resolutely opposed.

Sent Department; repeated AmEmb Canton 126.

Stuart