Office of the Historian

Marshall Mission Files, Lot 54–D270

Memorandum by General Shang Cheng56 to General Marshall

No. 86
[Chungking,] 25 April 1946.

Reference is made to your memo of 21 April relating to the equipping and training of ten divisions of Communist troops.

I have the pleasure to inform you that the memorandum was handed down to this Department by His Excellency, The Generalissimo, with the following note:

“As the matter concerns the reorganization of the Communist forces, I would like to confer with General Marshall and examine it before decisions should be made.”

For
General Shang Cheng
Yu Chi-shi

Chief of Bureau of Military Affairs
  1. Chief of the Department of Military Protocol, Chinese National Military Council.↩