893.24/1477: Telegram
The Chargé in the Soviet Union ( Henderson ) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 29—9:55 a.m.]
1144. Department’s 622, December 9, 9 p.m. The following represents the pertinent excerpts from a note, number 102, dated December 25, 1942, which has been received from the Foreign Office:
“The question of the possible passage of automobile routes through Soviet territory for supplying China, and in this connection the study of general road conditions and the capacity of bridges, is being referred to the appropriate Soviet organs which, in the event the question arises in the future will be in a position themselves to gather the required information.
Therefore the Soviet authorities do not see any necessity for a special study of road conditions in the regions of Soviet Central Asia by Mr. Gordon Bowles.”