793.94119/737: Telegram
The Ambassador in France (Leahy) to the Secretary of State
[Received April 4—9:35 a.m.]
387. Chauvel says that the French Foreign Office does not take very seriously the reports received from Shanghai of discussions of possible peace negotiations between Chungking and the Japanese. Talks of possible peace terms, he says, are “chronic” and have been in progress from time to time between self-appointed and semiofficial emissaries practically since the start of the war. He believes in view of the importance of our aid to Chiang Kai-shek that the latter will not come to any terms with the Japanese at the present time, though Tokyo is obviously anxious to liquidate the Chinese “incident”.