Foreign Relations of the United States, Diplomatic Papers, 1942, China

Mr. Lauchlin Currie to President Roosevelt ¹³

Washington, May 25, 1942.

Re: Attached cable from Madame Chiang Kai-shek.¹⁴

I understand that cables even more pessimistic have been received by General Hsiung, head of the Chinese Military Mission.

The most effective and indeed almost the only worthwhile thing we can do at the moment would be to put some additional pursuit planes in China. I think the situation is sufficiently critical to justify urging the British to transfer one or two fighter squadrons from India to China immediately.

Lauchlin Currie

13. Photostatic copy obtained from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N. Y.
14. Supra.