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740.0011 Pacific War/3410: Telegram

The Chargé in China (Atcheson) to the Secretary of State

Chungking, August 30, 1943—2 p.m.
[Received September 1—4:10 p.m.]

1595. During conversation which the British Ambassador and I had with Chiang Kai-shek August 29, Chiang stated that he welcomed Mountbatten’s27 appointment.

Atcheson
  1. Vice Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, appointed Supreme Allied Commander, Southeast Asia.↩