Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1943, China

740.0011 European War 1939/27514: Telegram

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

Chungking, January 27, 1943—5 p.m.
[Received January 27—1:44 p.m.]

148. A message from our Embassy [in] London received last night stated joint message from President and Churchill for Generalissimo⁵ was being communicated through British Ambassador^5a with whom by President’s direction I should arrange for immediate joint delivery.⁶ Message was not received by my British colleague until this morning and we made joint delivery shortly after noon. Generalissimo asked us to convey his thanks respectively to President and Churchill. He made no comment. Foreign Minister^6a who was present said that undoubtedly Generalissimo’s reply would go forward later.

Gauss

5. Telegram of January 25, supra.
6. Sir Horace James Seymour.
6. See communiqué of January 26, Department of State Bulletin, January 30, 1943, p. 93.
7. T. V. Soong.