893.00/15065: Telegram

The Chargé in China (Atcheson) to the Secretary of State

1254. As of interest in connection with our reports in regard to the Kuomintang-Communist situation, we are reliably informed by a Chinese official that Dr. T. V. Soong has telegraphed here saying that officials of the American Government had asked him about Kuomintang-Communist relations and had expressed to him the opinion that an open clash would be seriously regarded in the United States and should be avoided.6

Atcheson
  1. See memorandum by the Adviser on Political Relations (Hornbeck) dated July 24, p. 293.