893.00/2–546: Telegram
The Counselor of Embassy in China (Smyth) to the Secretary of State
[Received 11:21 a.m.]
217. From General Marshall. During the progress of my negotiations and especially while getting under way the delicate business of integrating and reorganization of the Chinese armies, I have instructed the Chargé, the Consular Officials and the Attachés to leave reporting to me alone of military matters and related complications of a political nature.
Robertson was submitting reports to Department on activities of Executive Headquarters in Peiping. As that is a headquarters operating under a Committee of Three (Governor Chang Chun, General Chou En-lai and myself) here in Chungking, and as Robertson represents me, I instructed him to submit such reports to me. I pass this information on as an explanation of the cessation of his reports.