840.50/504a: Telegram

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

656. Department is endeavoring to follow closely (1) outstanding ideas both publicly and privately advanced, and (2) trends of thinking in the several United Nations on post-war problems, especially of an international character, and their solution. Accordingly, it is desired that you furnish to the Department, by telegraph, a periodic report on such ideas and trends in China, subsequently sending by pouch, as may be practicable, copies or translations of such significant published data as you may consider useful and appropriate.

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