893.00/3–2845: Telegram
The Chargé in China (Atcheson) to the Secretary of State
[Received 9:10 a.m.]
523. Soong now asks that Ambassador Hurley be informed that he, Soong, is leaving here April 7 and that if the Ambassador will not reach Chungking by that time he is prepared to meet the latter en route at any place designated by General Hurley.
We do not know the precise reason for Soong’s apparent anxiety to meet the Ambassador at this time unless it is that he wishes to learn what plans the Ambassador may have for possible resumption of Kmt-Communist conversations, or Soong hopes to impress his views in the matter upon the Ambassador, or he hopes to get to the White House through the Ambassador’s sympathetic explanation of the character of the Generalissimo’s response to the President’s recent message. (Reurtel 447, March 15, 8 a.m. [p.m.])