Office of the Historian

793.003/1044a: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in China (Gauss)28

Washington, December 22, 1942—7 p.m.

1253. The Chinese Embassy has informed the Department that the Chinese Government concurs completely in our memorandum of December 18, which was handed to the Embassy on December 19, and to the draft treaty and exchange of notes attached thereto. The Embassy states also that the Chinese Government is agreeable to the proposed signing of the treaty in Washington on January 1, 1943, which is inter alia the thirty-first anniversary of the establishment of the first provisional government of the Republic of China under Dr. Sun Yat-sen.

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  1. The same telegram was sent to the Chargé in the United Kingdom as Department’s No. 6514, December 22, 7 p.m.↩