840.50/830a: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant)
5695. Personal for the Ambassador. While we were informally given to understand before the end of Leith-Ross’ visit that the British Government approved in principle our draft suggestions for a United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, the development of events may soon make action on this project urgently necessary, and we wish now to ascertain the more definite views of Chinese, British and Soviet governments on the issues of principle both for organization and for action which are presented by our draft. Our plans are still in a tentative and preliminary phase, and further developments wait on the advice of the Soviet, British and Chinese Governments.
You are directed to request as prompt an expression of opinion on our draft as may be convenient. We are considering problems preliminary to its formal consideration, and meanwhile we are actively accumulating reserve lend-lease stocks of needed materials, and in collaboration with the Inter-Allied Committee in London, we are studying what materials will be needed, and what supplies may be available.
Similar telegrams are being sent to Kuibyshev and Chungking.54
- Similar telegrams sent on the same date to Kuibyshev as No. 575 and to Chunking as No. 1080.↩