Office of the Historian

893.00/11–647: Telegram

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

Nanking, November 6, 1947—2 p.m.
[Received 10:53 p.m.]

2206. The Foreign Minister has just informed me that he regretted that the action of the Government regarding the Democratic League had reached the state it had before his return.45 (ReEmbtel 2169, October 31). He reported my opinions on the matter when he saw the Generalissimo at Ruling. The Government has now decided that it will take no further action against the Democratic League as such nor will it insist on its dissolution or the closing out of its headquarters. The leaders of the League have assured the Government that they themselves will dissolve the organization. The Government’s position is now that the League has placed itself in a position of illegality. All members of the League will be entirely free from interference and there will be no trials except of individuals charged with treasonable activities, regardless of whether they are members of the League or not. Such trials will be as prompt and public as possible and the charges and decisions will be made public.46

Stuart
  1. Wang Shih-chieh had been in the United States.↩
  2. For report on outlawry of the Democratic League, see despatch No. 1087, November 5, from the Ambassador in China, United States Relations With China, p. 836.↩