800.00B Communist International/312: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Standley) to the Secretary of State
[Received July 21—12:05 a.m.]
896. Your 455, June 18, 9 p.m. The following telegram has been received from Kuibyshev:
326, July 10, noon. Your 197, June 21, 3 p.m. The Chinese Military Attaché, Major General Kuo Teh-chuan, says that during the year he has been in the Soviet Union he has seen no reference whatever to the Chinese Communists in the Russian press. Insofar as he has been able to ascertain they have during this period had no representative in Kuibyshev or Moscow. He does not think the Chinese Communists are longer receiving supplies from the Russians. [Page 290] He knows that no supplies are passing through Kinsuang[Sinkiang] where Central Government authority has been established and Chungking representatives are now present and he does not believe that transportation through Mongolia is practicable. A similar statement concerning the cessation of Russian assistance to the Chinese Communists has been made by the Ambassador and other members of the Chinese Embassy staff. They professedly believe that some time before the dissolution of the Third International there had been a radical change in Soviet policy toward China, citing as evidence particularly the altered situation [in] Sinkiang which is obviously most gratifying to them.