Office of the Historian

761.93/1776: Telegram

The Ambassador in China (Gauss) to the Secretary of State

Chungking, May 31, 1944—11 a.m.
[Received June 12:45 p.m.]

941. Usually well-informed reliable Chinese informs us that prior to return of Soviet Ambassador to Moscow in May because of illness. Ambassador called on Generalissimo and comment follows:

(1)
China and Soviet Union have need of each other and Sino-Soviet relations should be friendly;
(2)
Soviet failure to give China aid arises from necessity Soviet full attention in Europe where fate of nation at stake, but apparently many Chinese do not understand this;
(3)
anti-Soviet attitude many high ranking Chinese officials matter for concern; and
(4)
Russia no longer gives aid to Communists in other countries and Generalissimo could be assured Soviets were not giving and would not give aid to Chinese Communists.

While impossible to verify report, there is51 attitude many high Chinese officials (Embassy’s despatch 2530, May 3) as attitude which is fairly well known and which Kuomintang has recently shown signs [Page 794] of fostering by private dissemination stories strongly anti-Soviet in nature.

Gauss
  1. Sentence is apparently garbled at this point.↩