Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1944, China, Volume VI

Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to President Roosevelt ⁷²

[Chungking, February 22, 1944.]

I have just returned from the front and found your message of 10 [9] February awaiting me. I shall be glad to do all I can to facilitate your plan to send an American Observer Mission to gain more accurate information regarding the troop concentration of our common enemy in North China and Manchuria. I have already issued instructions to the Ministry of War to get in touch with Gen. Stilwell’s Headquarters in order to map out a prospective itinerary for the mission in all areas where the political authority of the National Government extends and wherever our Army is stationed.

[File copy not signed]

72. Copy obtained from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N. Y. This message was sent by General Hearn to General Marshall as No. 123 for transmission to President Roosevelt.