893.032/23: Telegram
The Chargé in China (Atcheson) to the Secretary of State
Chungking, September 7,
1943—3 p.m.
[Received 8:30 p.m.]
[Received 8:30 p.m.]
1648. The C.E.C. plenary session opened September 6 with Chiang Kai-shek presiding. In his opening address Chiang spoke of confidence in victory, but requested that the session concentrate on the question of postwar reconstruction.
Informed Chinese now seem generally of opinion that question of a new President will be resolved by Chiang’s continuing [in] the post of Acting President.
Atcheson