Office of the Historian

893.00/8–1745: Telegram

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

Chungking, August 17, 1945—11 p.m.
[Received August 17—1:56 p.m.]

1376. One of Communist representatives [in] Chungking handed to an officer of Embassy today a document stated to be “the text of General Chu Teh’s representation to the Ambassador of the U. S. to be forwarded to the Government of the United States of America”. The text in question is same as set forth in Yenan broadcast August 16, “item 2 Yenan August 15” beginning with second paragraph “on the occasion when” and continuing through end of item 2.45

Hurley

  1. A Federal Communications Commission bulletin, containing General Chu Teh’s remarks, as monitored by the FCC, was attached. For full text of the Chinese Communist general’s “representation”, see telegram from the Commanding General, U. S. Forces in the China Theater (Wedemeyer) to the Secretary of War (Stimson), August 17, infra.

    The FCC bulletin had a prefatory statement made by the Yenan radio which said: “Commander in Chief General Chu Teh of liberated China’s anti-Japanese army sent a representation to the Ambassadors in China of the United States, the Soviet Union and Great Britain to be forwarded to their respective Governments requesting the right to take over the arms of Japanese and puppet troops and participation in the Allied acceptance of the Japanese surrender. A full text of the representation reads: …”

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