Office of the Historian

740.0011 Pacific War/1690: Telegram

The Ambassador in Argentina (Armour) to the Secretary of State 18

Buenos Aires, January 19, 1942—2 p.m.
[Received January 19—1:59 p.m.]

113. La Prensa this morning published on first news page a special United Press despatch dated Chungking, January 17, reporting an interview by Frank Fisher19 with Dr. Sun Fo, President of the [Legislative] Yuan, with following editorial note: [Page 6]

“The following despatch which agrees with other reports on the Chinese Nationalist Government’s great discontent over the manner in which the Allies have conducted the war and intend to carry on the campaign is highly significant.”

It seems to me that articles of this character written by American Press correspondents are anything but helpful to the Allied cause.

Repeated to Rio de Janeiro.

Armour
  1. Repeated to the Ambassador in China in the Department’s telegram No. 38, January 21, 11 p.m., for his information and such comment as he might care to make.↩
  2. Francis M. Fisher, United Press correspondent at Chungking.↩