740.0011 Pacific War/2422: Telegram
The Ambassador in China (Gauss) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 5—10:36 a.m.]
512. The Political Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, acting today as Government spokesman, said inter alia that although the situation in Burma is admittedly serious there is no alarm among the Chinese people or among the rank and file of the Chinese Army. He further states that the Chinese forces will not withdraw from Burma until the war is won and that the Chinese will continue to reinforce the forces there irrespective of whatever difficulties there may be. He said that a heavy debt is owed the heroic and badly outnumbered forces of the Allied Army on the Burma Front.