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

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Memorandum by the Secretary of State to President Roosevelt

Washington, April 4, 1944.

I enclose for your information and consideration a copy of a letter¹⁰ which I am forwarding to the Secretary of War commenting upon a proposal by General Stilwell, concurred in by Ambassador Gauss, that you send a message to the Generalissimo urging his assent to the dispatch immediately of a military observers’ mission to the so-called Communist area in China.¹¹

Cordell Hull

10. Supra.
11. President Roosevelt indicated his approval and on April 5 returned to the Secretary of State the initialed copy of his letter to the Secretary of War.