FOREIGN OFFICE FILES FOR CHINA, 1949-1976, Part 3: Complete Files for 1951

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FOREIGN OFFICE FILES FOR CHINA, 1949-1976

(Public Record Office Classes FO 371 and FCO 21)

Part 3: Complete Files for 1951 (PRO Class FO 371/92188-92395)

Contents of Reels

REEL 65

FO 371/92188:

Request for assistance in tracing the missing Part II of a book on Chinese secret societies called Triad and Tabut by the late M. L. Wynne (1951)

FO 371/92189:

Annual report on China for 1950 (1951)

FO 371/92190:

Lists of members of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, members of the China Peace Committee and members of the China People's Committee in Defence of World Peace and Against American Aggression (1951)

FO 371/92191:

Monthly political summaries November 1950 to November 1951; Kunming situation report January 1951; Canton fortnightly summary of 28 December 1951 (1951)

FO 371/92192:

Reports, comments and information from many sources showing the extension of power of the ruling Chinese Communists over the political, social and economic life of the whole of China; determination to increase production and trade (1951) (Folder 1)

FO 371/92193:

FO 371/92194:

REEL 66

FO 371/92195:

FO 371/92196:

FO 371/92197:

FO 371/92198:

FO 371/92199:

FO 371/92200:

REEL 67

FO 371/92201:

FO 371/92202:

FO 371/92203:

FO 371/92204:

FO 371/92205:

FO 371/92206:

FO 371/92207:

Reports of conditions in Sinkiang and alleged capture by the Chinese of two Kazakh resistance leaders; conversation with General Yolbas Beg, a refugee from Turkestan in India; report of conditions in Sinkiang appearing in Soviet paper Izvestiya (1951)

REEL 68

FO 371/92208:

Summaries of events and situation reports for Formosa during 1951; report of talks in London with Han Lih-Wu, Chiang Kai-shek's political adviser, concerning UK's attitude to Formosa (1951) (Folder 1)

FO 371/92209:

FO 371/92210:

FO 371/92211:

Speculation on Chinese Communist threat to Hong Kong; politico-military talks between US and UK representatives in Washington; shooting incidents on Hong Kong frontier; visit of US General Chase, Head of American Military Mission to Hong Kong from Taipeh (1951) (Folder 1)

FO 371/92212:

FO 371/92213:

Proposed postponement of constitutional reforms in Hong Kong until Far East situation is less critical (1951)

FO 371/92214:

Question of payment of pension to George Caulton ex-employee of the China Merchants Steam Navigation Company of Shanghai (1951)

FO 371/92215:

Claims for superannuation benefits for former employees of the Shanghai Municipal Council (SMC); advances made from Foreign Office funds approved by HMG; claims against surviving trustees of the SMC Superannuation Fund (1951)

FO 371/92216:

Notes, memorandum and report on situation in North East China and translation of a resolution of the North Eastern Bureau of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party explaining the role of the Party in the factories (1951)

FO 371/92217:

General picture of the Inner Mongolian Autonomous area (1951)

FO 371/92218:

Claims of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation against the SMC (1951)

FO 371/92219:

Recommended list of books for the study of Chinese communism; official report on Chinese communism and its relation to Soviet communism (1951)

REEL 69

FO 371/92220:

Sir John Hutchinson's report on conditions in China compiled during his eighteen months' stay as HM Charge d'Affaires in Peking (1951)

FO 371/92221:

Restrictions on use of foreign languages in trade marks, signs and advertisements (1951)

FO 371/92222:

Suggestion that a diary be kept by FO Research Department on the movements of the five Chinese Communist leaders Mao Tse-tung, Liu Shao-Chi, Chou Teh, Chou en-Lai and Li Li San (1951)

FO 371/92223:

References to the possible formation of a 'Third Party' in China, opposed to the existing Communist regime (1951)

FO 371/92224:

Retained by department under Section 3(4)

FO 371/92225:

Various views on the future of Formosa; unchanged US policy towards the Chinese Nationalists; anti British demonstration at British Consulate, Tamsui; Parliamentary statement of British policy towards Formosa in May 1951 (1951) (Folder 1)

FO 371/92226:

FO 371/92227:

Question of representation of the Chinese People's Government in the UN Organisation (1951)

FO 371/92228:

Soviet protest in the UN against American bombing of Chinese territory and American armed invasion of Formosa; Chinese press allegation of American intrusion into Chinese airspace (1951)

FO 371/92229:

Account of activities of Chinese delegation to the UN; report of speeches made by General Wu on his return from USA to Peking; Chinese press comment on the UN General Assembly meeting (1951)

FO 371/92230:

Chinese anti-Western propaganda; reports on Chinese efforts to increase support for North Korea (1951) (Folder 1)

FO 371/92231:

Chinese anti-Western propaganda; reports on Chinese efforts to increase support for North Korea (1951) (Folder 2)

FO 371/92232:

Chinese anti-Western propaganda; reports on Chinese efforts to increase support for North Korea (1951) (Folder 3)

FO 371/92233:

International deliberations on question of UN imposition of political and economic sanctions on the Central People's Government of China (CPG); differences of US and UK policy; expressions of public and private views on China (1951) (Folder 1)

REEL 70

FO 371/92234:

FO 371/92235:

FO 371/92236:

FO 371/92237:

FO 371/92238:

REEL 71

FO 371/92239:

FO 371/92240:

FO 371/92241:

Report of a Soviet approach to USA suggesting co-operation in the development of China (1951)

FO 371/92242:

Proposed meeting in Hong Kong of R. H. Scott of the FO with L. Lamb, Charge d'Affaires at Peking after the Bukit Serene Conference in Singapore (1951)

FO 371/92243:

Kuomintung-West German relations (1951)

FO 371/92244:

Speech by Nationalist Chinese General Ho Yin-Chin on Sino-Japanese co-operation (1951)

FO 371/92245:

Sino-Soviet relations (1951)

FO 371/92246:

US policy towards China and the Far East; statements by State Department Assistant Secretary of State Dean Rusk and by Secretary of State Dean Acheson (1951)

FO 371/92247:

Decoration of President of Ecuador by Nationalist Chinese Charge d'Affaires to mark good relations between Ecuador and Nationalist China (1951)

FO 371/92248:

Sino-Indian relations (1951)

FO 371/92249:

Chinese press comments on secret trial in Pakistan of people implicated in a "fight for a peaceful solution of the Korean problem" (1951)

FO 371/92250:

Reports of Chinese attacks on ships in the vicinity of Hong Kong; protests to the Chinese Government (1951)

REEL 72

FO 371/92251:

Representations made by Britain to the Peking Government; treatment of British interests by the CPG; relations between Chinese and UK representatives at missions abroad (1951)

FO 371/92252:

Visit of Chinese Communist leader Wu Wen Tao to the UK to speak at the 'Daily Worker' rally; press articles about Anglo-Chinese relations; Chinese comment on the result of the British General Election (1951)

FO 371/92253:

Historical summary of the conflict of interest in the Prutus Reef between China and Japan (1951)

FO 371/92254:

Report of American plans for invasion of China by US and Formosan Nationalist forces; report by UK Chiefs of Staff on the vulnerability of China; Lord Tedder's view of the report; report of possible Chinese Nationalist attack on the mainland (1951)

FO 371/92255:

Retained by department under Section 3(4)

FO 371/92256:

Request for information about the entry of China into the Korean War (1951)

FO 371/92257:

Monthly economic reports for China November 1950 to December 1951 (1951)

FO 371/92258:

Reports and situation of foreign-owned public utility companies in Shanghai (1951)

FO 371/92259: Situation of British and foreign commercial interests and individuals in China; Chamber of Commerce reports of difficulties of foreign traders (1951) (Folder 1)

REEL 73

FO 371/92260:

Situation of British and foreign commercial interests and individuals in China; Chamber of Commerce reports of difficulties of foreign traders (1951) (Folder 2)

FO 371/92261:

Situation of British and foreign commercial interests and individuals in China; Chamber of Commerce reports of difficulties of foreign traders (1951) (Folder 3)

FO 371/92262:

Situation of British and foreign commercial interests and individuals in China; Chamber of Commerce reports of difficulties of foreign traders (1951) (Folder 4)

FO 371/92263:

Situation of British and foreign commercial interests and individuals in China; Chamber of Commerce reports of difficulties of foreign traders (1951) (Folder 5)

FO 371/92264:

Situation of British and foreign commercial interests and individuals in China; Chamber of Commerce reports of difficulties of foreign traders (1951) (Folder 6)

FO 371/92265:

Situation of British and foreign commercial interests and individuals in China; Chamber of Commerce reports of difficulties of foreign traders (1951) (Folder 7)

REEL 74

FO 371/92266:

Situation of British and foreign commercial interests and individuals in China; Chamber of Commerce reports of difficulties of foreign traders (1951) (Folder 8)

FO 371/92267:

Situation of British and foreign commercial interests and individuals in China; Chamber of Commerce reports of difficulties of foreign traders (1951) (Folder 9)

FO 371/92268:

Reports on the Chinese economy; details of industrial and economic reconstruction and relevant State legislation (1951)

FO 371/92269:

Reports on economic conditions in Formosa during 1951; reports on camphor and pineapple industries in particular (1951)

FO 371/92270:

Report on Shanghai's industrial position in November 1950; report about conditions in factories and mines in Manchuria (1951)

FO 371/92271:

Chinese foreign exchange control; ban in Hong Kong of sale of Chinese bonds; reports on Chinese currency policy (1951)

FO 371/92272:

Economic sanctions against China; US embargo on exports to China either direct or through Hong Kong; determination of lists of prohibited strategic materials for export to China; measures to enforce the embargo; control of exports from Hong Kong to Formosa (1951) (Folder 1)

FO 371/92273:

REEL 75

FO 371/92274:

FO 371/92275:

FO 371/92276:

FO 371/92277:

FO 371/92278:

FO 371/92279:

FO 371/92280:

REEL 76

FO 371/92281:

FO 371/92282:

FO 371/92283:

FO 371/92284:

FO 371/92285:

FO 371/92286:

FO 371/92287:

FO 371/92288:

Reports on Hong Kong trade with Chinese Communists (1951)

FO 371/92289:

Chinese trade agreement with Czechoslovakia following visit of Czech trade delegation to Peking (1951)

FO 371/92290:

Retained by department under Section 3(4)

FO 371/92291:

Sino-Hungarian Trade Agreement June 1951 (1951)

FO 371/92292:

Comments on proposal for channelling Sino-Japanese trade through Hong Kong (1951)

FO 371/92293:

Sino-Soviet trade agreement and signing of two protocols providing for increased trade (1951)

REEL 77

FO 371/92294:

Chinese takeover of American companies; control of US citizens' assets in China; economic assistance by ECA to Formosa (1951)

FO 371/92295:

Sino-Polish trade agreements (1951)

FO 371/92296:

Rumours of Sino-Burmese trade agreement (1951)

FO 371/92297:

Question of tax on foreign-owned property; imposition of agricultural land tax; imposition of fines for non-payment of taxes; taxes on Chinese nationals resident in British territory (1951) (Folder 1)

FO 371/92298:

FO 371/92299:

Retained by department under Section 3(4)

FO 371/92300:

Information about Chinese Nationalist military strength in Formosa (Taiwan); report on US military activity in Taiwan (1951)

FO 371/92301:

Soviet assistance to the Chinese Army (1951)

FO 371/92302:

An analysis of the quality of the Chinese Communist Army and Air Force (1951)

FO 371/92303:

Reports on Chinese Communist Air Force; reports of increased activity of jet aircraft around Peking; Russian instructors in Tientsin (1951)

FO 371/92304:

Report of a forced landing of a Royal Australian Air Force transport aircraft at Tainan in Formosa (1951)

FO 371/92305:

Prohibition of night navigation near Tsingtao (1951)

FO 371/92306:

Reports on agriculture and forestry in China; agrarian revolution and land reform; reports on drought in some provinces; threat of pests and floods in North China (1951)

FO 371/92307:

Production of tobacco in China (1951)

FO 371/92308:

Reports on cotton industry and China's cotton supplies; Government closure of mills for six months because of shortage of raw cotton (1951)

FO 371/92309:

Restrictions on sale of ships to the Chinese (1951) (Folder 1)

FO 371/92310:

Restrictions on sale of ships to the Chinese (1951) (Folder 2)

FO 371/92311:

Retained by department under Section 3(4)

FO 371/92312:

Retained by department under Section 3(4)

FO 371/92313:

Retained by department under Section 3(4)

FO 371/92314:

Retained by department under Section 3(4)

FO 371/92315:

Retained by department under Section 3(4)

FO 371/92316:

Retained by department under Section 3(4)

FO 371/92317:

Report of operation of a Hong Kong-Macao-Canton shipping service by the Ming Sung Company of Hong Kong (1951)

FO 371/92318:

Conditions of employment of Chinese seamen on British ships; Communist propaganda amongst British seamen in ports (1951) (Folder 1)

REEL 78

FO 371/92319:

Conditions of employment of Chinese seamen on British ships; Communist propaganda amongst British seamen in ports (1951) (Folder 2)

FO 371/92320:

Discussions with the Chinese Government about upkeep of the former Chinese Embassy at Portland Place, London; responsibility assumed by the Bank of China in London on behalf of the Chinese Government (1951) (Folder 1)

FO 371/92321:

FO 371/92322:

FO 371/92323:

Protests by foreign missions and consulates at take-over of their properties by the Chinese Government; HMG's renunciation of title to some property in Tientsin (1951) (Folder 1)

FO 371/92324:

Protests by foreign missions and consulates at take-over of their properties by the Chinese Government; HMG's renunciation of title to some property in Tientsin (1951) (Folder 2)

FO 371/92325:

Various reports on land reform and its effects; establishment of rural class status; agrarian reform in South West China (1951)

FO 371/92326:

Parliamentary Question (PQ) about Chinese reply to British Government's claims arising from the shelling of HMS Amethyst (1951)

FO 371/92327:

Press report on democratisation of management of the North East Oil Refinery; alleged discovery of rich oil deposits in North West China (1951)

FO 371/92328:

Temporary mining regulations issued by the Chinese People's Government; possible effects on foreign interests (1951)

FO 371/92329:

Displaced Jews in Shanghai; possible expulsion of those not integrated in the new economic system (1951)

FO 371/92330:

Situation of foreign nationals in China; difficulties in obtaining exit visas; arrests, persecutions and expulsions of missionaries (1951) (Folder 1)

REEL 79

FO 371/92331:

Situation of foreign nationals in China; difficulties in obtaining exit visas; arrests, persecutions and expulsions of missionaries (1951) (Folder 2)

FO 371/92332:

Situation of foreign nationals in China; difficulties in obtaining exit visas; arrests, persecutions and expulsions of missionaries (1951) (Folder 3)

FO 371/92333:

Situation of foreign nationals in China; difficulties in obtaining exit visas; arrests, persecutions and expulsions of missionaries (1951) (Folder 4)

FO 371/92334:

Arrangements for evacuation of foreign nationals from China; advice to British subjects; consideration of problem of evacuation of large numbers of British subjects from Shanghai (1951)

FO 371/92335:

Arrests of foreign nationals; statistics of non-British nationals under arrest (1951)

FO 371/92336:

Statistics concerning British, Commonwealth and US citizens in China; individual requests for information on whereabouts of relatives (1951)

FO 371/92337:

Request for information on whereabouts of former Chinese Ambassador to Great Britain Dr Cheng Tien-His (1951)

FO 371/92338:

Registration certificates for foreigners in China; refusal to renew validity (1951)

FO 371/92339:

Request by US citizens in Shanghai for text of President Truman's proclamation on Thanksgiving Day 22 November 1951 (1951)

FO 371/92340:

Empire Day address by British Consul-General at the Shanghai Club on 24 May 1951; attempt at escape from Shanghai by National City Bank manager, a British subject; minutes of Fifteenth Annual General Meeting of the British Residents Association of China a (1951)

FO 371/92341:

Retained by department under Section 3(4)

FO 371/92342:

Introduction of Michael Lindsay to the UK High Commissioner in Canberra, as an expert on Chinese affairs from pre-war days onwards, on his appointment to the Australian National University (1951)

REEL 80

FO 371/92343:

The judicial system in China (1951)

FO 371/92344:

Retained by department under Section 3(4)

FO 371/92345:

Lack of information about arrest of a Wang Yin-Tai, presumably charged with subversion (1951)

FO 371/92346:

Reformation of criminals by establishment of a "new life" farm by the Tientsin Government (1951)

FO 371/92347:

Detention of Formosan prisoners-of-war on Manus Island and in Malaya (1951)

FO 371/92348:

Attack on the North China press by a writer Wang Ting-K'un in the official Communist Party organ People's Daily for "insufficient ideology" (1951)

FO 371/92349:

Difficulties of the newspaper North China Daily News, resulting in liquidation (1951)

FO 371/92350:

Distribution of Chinese newspapers and periodicals; reprinting of Mao's essays in the People's Daily; copies of recent Communist literature (1951)

FO 371/92351:

Question of closure of the New China News Agency in Hong Kong (1951)

FO 371/92352:

Retained by department under Section 3(4)

FO 371/92353:

Retained by department under Section 3(4)

FO 371/92354:

Newspaper extract condemning extravagance of the waist drum bands in Chungking (1951)

FO 371/92355:

Retained by department under Section 3(4)

FO 371/92356:

Arrest of twenty-one persons in Tientsin on allegations of spying (1951)

FO 371/92357:

Provisional regulations governing the preservation of State secrets (1951)

FO 371/92358:

Apprenticeships and studentships for Chinese in the UK (1951)

FO 371/92359:

Requests by British United Aid to China for permission to export Leyland truck spares to China and for advice about proposing continuation of scholarships for Chinese students in the UK (1951)

FO 371/92360:

Chinese Red Cross medical teams for Korea (1951)

FO 371/92361:

Chinese take-over of foreign schools and universities; claims by dismissed teachers; scholastic reforms introduced; encouragement of orders for British chemical apparatus for Yenching University (1951)

REEL 81

FO 371/92362:

Request for advice about appealing for funds in aid of Christian universities in China (1951)

FO 371/92363:

Decision to close the Sino-British Cultural Association in Shanghai (1951)

FO 371/92364:

Restrictions on export of certain valuable cultural objects from China (1951)

FO 371/92365:

Raising of standards of scientific and technical education in China (1951)

FO 371/92366:

Treatment of missionaries in China; hostile articles in the press (1951)

FO 371/92367:

Financial difficulties of Holy Trinity Cathedral in Shanghai; inability to meet tax demands (1951)

FO 371/92368:

Attitude of Chinese Government to Christian churches; attempt to sever Catholic church from Rome; propaganda to break connection of Protestant churches with missionaries (1951)

FO 371/92369:

Various papers on the attitude of Chinese Communists to religion in the post-war period; dissolution of the Roman Catholic "Legion of Mary" (1951)

FO 371/92370:

Peking municipal government provisional measures for control of monasteries and temples (1951)

FO 371/92371:

Allegations of British persecutions of overseas Chinese in Malaya and Hong Kong; regulations concerning overseas Chinese entering and leaving China; repatriation of Chinese from Malaya (1951) (Folder 1)

FO 371/92372:

FO 371/92373:

REEL 82

FO 371/92374:

FO 371/92375:

Policy of Central People's Government towards peoples of non-Chinese culture resident within boundaries of the Chinese People's Republic (CPR) (1951)

FO 371/92376:

Recruitment of Chinese in Hong Kong for service in Korea; report about the UN recruiting office in Hong Kong (1951)

FO 371/92377:

Translation of the Marriage Law of the CPR (1951)

FO 371/92378:

Expulsion of G. Fox-Holmes, Consul-General at Tihwa for alleged criminal acts; accusation against Mitchell, Consul-General at Chungking; representations about bad treatment of British Consul-General at Tsingtao; question of freedom of movement of HM Charge (1951) (Folder 1)

FO 371/92379:

FO 371/92380:

FO 371/92381:

REEL 83

FO 371/92382:

Appointments of Chinese diplomatic and consular representatives in various countries (1951)

FO 371/92383:

Relations between foreign missions in Peking and the Central People's Government (1951) (Folder 1)

FO 371/92384:

Relations between foreign missions in Peking and the Central People's Government (1951) (Folder 2)

FO 371/92385:

Activities of foreign missions in Hong Kong; pressure by US Consulate-General on British firms to discourage trading with Communist China; increase in staff of US Consulate-General in Hong Kong (1951)
FO 371/92386: Question of Chinese Nationalist representation in Germany; change of Nationalist ambassadors in Korea (1951)

FO 371/92387:

Appointment of new Korean ambassador in Formosa (1951)

FO 371/92388:

Take-over of interests and funds of Egyptian mission in Nanking by HM Consul-General (1951)

FO 371/92389:

Reports from British missions about celebration of Chinese Republic National Day on 6 October; report of Chinese Nationalist counter-demonstration in Bangkok (1951)

FO 371/92390:

Translation problems in the British Embassy Peking; satisfaction at report of China Bureau's establishment of a translation section to relieve pressure (1951)

FO 371/92391:

Labour regulations and affairs; review by Labour Attach at Peking (1951) (Folder 1)

FO 371/92392:

Labour regulations and affairs; review by Labour Attach at Peking (1951) (Folder 2)

FO 371/92393:

Chinese union protest against indictment of seven dockers' strike leaders by a British court (1951)

FO 371/92394:

Request to HM Charge d'Affaires to provide an office and meeting place for a "labour union of Chinese workers for British nationals"; payment of Chinese chauffeur in accordance with Chinese labour law (1951)

FO 371/92395:

Indian proposal for Chinese representative at a non-official conference of social work in Madras to be held in December 1952 (1951)

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