123 G 231/582: Telegram
The Ambassador in China (Gauss) to the Secretary of State
Chungking, December 4,
1942—11 a.m.
[Received 8:20 p.m.]
[Received 8:20 p.m.]
1430. In a friendly private conversation with me yesterday afternoon Foreign Minister Soong on his own initiative referred to an article regarding me in Washington Merry-Go-Round of October 28,50 which he described as “clumsy propaganda” and said that the article had come to the notice of the Generalissimo who had desired Soong to tell me that the statements in the article regarding Chiang’s attitude toward me were entirely untrue.
Gauss
- Drew Pearson had reported that it was an inescapable fact that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek did not like Ambassador Gauss and would like to have him replaced.↩