General wartime relations between the United States and China, with emphasis on China’s military position and United States efforts to give military assistance to China 1
1. See also Foreign Relations, 1941, vol. iv, pp. 730 ff., and ibid., vol. v, pp. 590 ff., passim.
[151] Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to President Roosevelt
Photostatic copy obtained from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N. Y. In a memorandum of March 5, 1943, President Roosevelt said: “This letter is in the handwriting of the Generalissimo and was brought to me by his wife. The translation is by her. F. D. R.”
[152] Memorandum by the Adviser on Political Relations (Hornbeck)
893.20/764½
[153] The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in China (Gauss)
740.0011 Pacific War/2938a: Telegram
[154] Document Prepared in the Department of State
740.0011 Pacific War/2959
[155] Memorandum by the Adviser on Political Relations (Hornbeck) to the Secretary of State
740.0011 Pacific War/2959
[156] The Ambassador in China (Gauss) to the Secretary of State
[Received 8:20 p.m.]
123 G 231/582: Telegram
[157] The Consul at Kunmnig (Ludden) to the Ambassador in China (Gauss)
740.0011 Pacific War/3067
[158] Draft of Letter From Mr. Owen Lattimore to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek
Photostatic copy obtained from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N. Y. Draft submitted to President Roosevelt with memorandum of December 18, 1942 from Lauchlin Currie, who explained that the letter when approved by the President would be signed by Owen Lattimore and carried to China by the new Naval Attaché (Lt. Col. Charles C. Brown, U. S. M. C.) “which should insure its safe and uncensored delivery.” President Roosevelt, who revised the draft, in a memorandum of December 22 asked his Military Aide, General Watson, to arrange for Mr. Lattimore to see him on December 23 or 24, when the draft letter should be available.
[159] The Ambassador in China (Gauss) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 23—4:58 p.m.]
740.0011 Pacific War/3014: Telegram
[160] Memorandum by the Adviser on Political Relations (Hornbeck)
740.0011 Pacific War/2959
[161] The Ambassador in China (Gauss) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 30—9:25 a.m.]
740.0011 Pacific War/3030: Telegram
[162] The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in China (Gauss)
811.917/234
[163] Memorandum by the Chief of the Division of Far Eastern Affairs (Hamilton) to the Adviser an Political Relations (Hornbeck)
740.0011 Pacific War/2959