893.00/3–1245: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman)
Washington, March 12,
1945—3 p.m.
566. March 10 issue of the New York Times contains article by C. L. Sulzberger under Moscow elate line of March 9 stating Chinese Communists are reported by foreign sources to have asked U. S. Government to turn over large quantities of captured Japanese arms and munitions to Chinese Communists and, although the United States urged Chiang Kai-shek to permit such shipments, the latter has refused permission for fear of strengthening Chinese Communists.
Please endeavor to ascertain and report by telegraph source and basis of Sulzberger’s despatch.
Stettinius