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INWARD SAVING TELEGRAM
By confidential bag.
POLITICAL DISTRIBUTION
FROM WASHINGTON TO FOREIGN OFFICE
Sir 0. Franks
No. 442 Saving
8th October, 1949.
R. 11th October, 1949
Repeated to Paris No. 460, The Hague No. 44, Brussels No. 48, Hong Kong No. 8, Singapore No. 16,
Nanking No. 7 and New York (U.K. Del.) No. 336 all Saving
Addressed to Foreign Office telegram No. 442
Saving of 8th October, repeated for information Saving to Paris, The Hague, Brussels, Hong Kong, Singapore, Nanking and U.K. Del. New York.
CHINA
State Department made public following statement on 7th October.
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"The Department has been informed that the Aliens' Affairs Bureau has handed foreign press correspondents in Shanghai the following order of the Shanghai Military Control Commission, dated 6th October:-
【Effective from the date of issue of this order, all correspondents in Shanghai, irrespective of whether they are Chinese or foreign, for foreign newspapers and periodicals, news agencies and broadcasting agencies, whose country has not established diplomatic relations with the Chinese People's Republic, are to cease acting in their capacity as press men, including the filing of press telegrams and radiograms.
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The effect of this order is to blot out completely objective reporting of developments in the Communist- occupied territory of China. The order is not based on military security or censorship, but solely on the ground of non-recognition of the newly announced Communist régime.
It is evident that this order constitutes a crude effort on the part of the Chinese Communists to force recognition of their newly established régime by those countries which continue to have, on the basis of the record of the Chinese Communists to date, wholly justifiable doubts regarding the responsible nature of the régime according to generally accepted international standards.
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