893.00/14610: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in China (Johnson)
216. Your 632, December 23, noon. While the Department concurs in the attitude you have adopted in refraining from making any approach to General Chiang Kai-shek which might assume the color of representations, it is the Department’s opinion that you might, on some appropriate occasion, make inquiry of General Chiang in regard to reported difficulties with the Chinese Communists and express to him this Government’s continuing interest in Chinese unity which has, as you are aware, comprised one of the principal factors in our policy toward China.
Sent to Chungking only.