893.00/12–1745: Telegram
The Chargé in China (Robertson) to the Secretary of State
[Received 2:33 p.m.]
2172. This morning Wang Ping-nan, Communist representative, called at Embassy. He said 2 planes arrived from Yenan yesterday, bringing about 40 Communists, including 5 of the 7 Communist delegates to People’s Consultative Council, as follows: Chou En-lai; Yeh Chien-ying, Communist Chief-of-Staff; Teng Ying-chao, wife of Chou En-lai; Wu Yu-chang, stated by Wang to have been a former [Page 488] Tung Meng Hui member and later an official of the Kuomintang; and Lou Ting-i, Yenan Minister of Information (Embassy’s 2086, December 3 to Dept, repeated to Moscow). The two other Communist delegates, Tung Pi-wu and Wang Jo-fei, were already in Chungking. Wang said date of PCC would be set upon return of Generalissimo to Chungking.
Wang said Communists welcomed and were very much pleased over President Truman’s statement40 as they felt it clarified American policy toward China. (Sent to Dept; repeated to Moscow.)
Wang commented that he believed three factors in international situation would have important bearing on outcome of present situation in China, namely (1) current American-Soviet conversations, (2) position assumed by General Marshall and (3) a more detailed definition of American policy toward China.
He did not venture a prediction of outcome of PCC meeting.