Office of the Historian

893.00/11–2845: Telegram

The Ambassador in France (Caffery) to the Secretary of State

Paris, November 28, 1945—7 p.m.
[Received November 29—1:20 a.m.]

6856. Chauvel88 said that the Foreign Office has received a report from De Margerie, French representative in Peking, that if it were not for the presence of American troops the whole situation in Northern China would disintegrate and there would probably be civil war and disorder everywhere. (Sent Department as 6856; Chungking as 31.) De Margerie expressed the hope that U. S. troops would not be withdrawn at this time, which view Chauvel entirely shares.

Caffery
  1. Jean Chauvel, Ambassador and Secretary General of the French Ministry for Foreign Affairs.↩