740.0011 PW/10–2844: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in China (Gauss)
1388. The White House issued the following press release at noon, October 28:
General Stilwell has been relieved as Chief of Staff to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, as Deputy to Admiral Mountbatten, Commander of the South East Asia Command, and as U. S. Commander of the China–Burma–India Theater and has been recalled to Washington.1 The former China–Burma–India Theater will be divided into two theaters under separate commanders. The U. S. Forces in the China Theater will be commanded by Major General A. C. Wedemeyer, who has been appointed concurrently by the Generalissimo, Chief of Staff of the China Theater. General Wedemeyer is now Deputy Chief of Staff to Admiral Mountbatten. The United States Forces in the India–Burma Theater will be commanded by Lieutenant General Daniel I. Sultan, now Deputy Commander of the China–Burma–India Theater.”
- October 21, 1944.↩