Office of the Historian

740.0011 Pacific War/2438: Telegram

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

Washington, May 9, 1942—3 p.m.

375. Your 529, May 8, 5 p.m. For your strictly confidential information only: We concur in your opinion that nothing should be [Page 46] done in any way that might arouse the slightest suspicion on the part of the Chinese of any lack of confidence in them and have accordingly taken up the matter with General Marshall. He shares this view, and it is understood that the War Department will immediately send appropriate instructions in the matter to General Magruder.1

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  1. Infra. ↩