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Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams
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Records of the Naval Aide to the President (Truman Administration)
State Department Briefs Files
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Tito, Josip Broz, 1892-1980
Li, Zongren, 1891-1969
Kirk, Alan Goodrich, 1888-1963
Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
WASHINGTON
August 18, 1949
SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS
YUGOSLAVIA
Ambassador Kirk reports that while the violent Soviet
press campaign against Tito continues unabated and has
led to some predictions of the imminent severance of Soviet-Yugoslav
relations, his colleagues generally agree with the Embassy analysis
that the Kremlin is not planning to break relations but is hoping to
goad Tito into taking this step. Our Embassy finds no evidence suggest-
ing a strong military build-up against Tito, but feels unable to estimate
the importance which the Soviet leaders may attach to a liquidation of
this problem, at almost any cost. Some Moscow observers feel that the
Soviet press campaign indicates that the Kremlin does have a plan worked
out for the liquidation of Tito.
CHINA
The Chinese representative in New York has informed our
Mission that he has instructions to propose for the
agenda of the forthcoming General Assembly the question of Soviet vio-
lations of the Sino-Soviet Treaty of 1945. The Chinese plan to file
this case at the opening of the Assembly, in order to minimize the
possibility of any advance word reaching the Chinese Communists or the
USSR. The Chinese Foreign Office in Canton has also indicated that
the same proposal was under consideration and has requested our views.
On the eve of his departure from China, the Counselor
of our Embassy Office in Canton estimates that northwest China can now
be written off as of only nuisance value and that Szechuan province can
be written off whenever the Communists attack. He predicts that Acting
President Li Tsung-jen may be able to hold out somewhere in southwest
China, maintaining a claim to legitimacy as the head of the national
government, and that Chiang Kai-shek , also with a pretense of legitimacy,
can hold out on Formosa. He therefore feels that we may have to choose
at some point between these two regimes.
DECLASSIFIED
E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402
State Dept. Guideline, June 12, 1979
By NLT- HC NARS, Data 11-13-to