Office of the Historian

President Roosevelt to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek 87

Washington, March 1, 1944.

Thank you for the steps you have initiated as stated in your message of February 22nd to facilitate our plan for sending American observers into North China to gain more accurate information regarding large Japanese concentrations there and in Manchuria. The area of North and Northeast China should be a particularly fruitful source of important military intelligence of the Japanese. We shall therefore plan on the despatch of the observers’ mission in the near future.

Roosevelt
  1. Transmitted by the War Department as telegram No. 4646, with instructions: “To be seen by General Stilwell’s and Hearn’s eyes alone for transmission of the following message from the President to the Generalissimo.” Copy obtained from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N. Y.↩