Office of the Historian

893.00/15148: Telegram

The Ambassador in China (Gauss) to the Secretary of State 68

Chungking, October 17, 1943—10 a.m.
[Received October 17—6:31 a.m.]

1968. Embassy’s 1695, September 12; 1709, September 17 [14] and previous. Foreign Office Information Department official states that Chinese Government in about 1 week or 10 days will make important announcement in regard to Chinese Communist problem; that announcement will follow line laid down in General Chiang Kai-shek’s instruction to CEC, September 13;69 that opinion in Foreign Office is to effect that an agreement with Communists will be reached by negotiation and that military action against them will be avoided.

Informant states that announcement will be timed to coincide with meeting of Foreign Ministers of USA, Britain and Soviet Union at Moscow in hope that problem of Chinese Communists will be brought to attention of that conference.

Gauss
  1. Repeated by the Department on October 20 to the Ambassador in the Soviet Union.↩
  2. For text, see United States Relations With China, p. 530.↩