893.00/14541: Telegram
The First Secretary of Embassy in China (Smyth) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 1—12:05 p.m.]
146. Peiping’s 99, March 28, 4 p.m. and Chungking’s 163, April 3, 10 a.m. Mr. Lucius Porter, American educator, who has just returned from a visit to northern and central Shansi Province, reports that during his trip he talked with a number of substantial Kuomintang and Chinese “Communist” officials from whom he states he learned that (1) the two parties have definitely arrived at an agreement, (2) the Kuomintang and “Communists” are to redouble their efforts at cooperation in opposing Japan, and (3) the Kuomintang has allotted to the “Communists” the five provinces of Ninghsia, Kansu, Shensi, Shansi and Hopei in which areas the “Communists” are to have complete freedom of action in developing their theories of Government.
Repeated to Chungking, Shanghai; by airmail to Tokyo.