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

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The Secretary of State to the Secretary of the Treasury (Morgenthau)¹¹

Washington, December 29, 1943.

My Dear Mr. Secretary: There is enclosed for your confidential information and consideration a paraphrase of a secret telegram of December 23, 1943 from the American Embassy at Chungking¹² in regard to a conversation which Ambassador Gauss had with President Chiang Kai-shek on December 22 on the subject of China’s critical economic position.

I shall be glad to receive any comments that you may care to make concerning the contents of the enclosed telegram.

Sincerely yours,

Cordell Hull

11. Copy transmitted on the same date to the Secretary of War (Stimson).
12. Telegram No. 2478, p. 482.