Office of the Historian

Marshall Mission Files, Lot 54–D270: Telegram

General Marshall to Mr. Walter S. Robertson, at Peiping

[Nanking,] 12 June 1946.

876. Chou En-lai requests that I instruct Executive Headquarters to order Team 32 to return to Hsuanhwatien and resume their team activities. Chou En-lai intimates that American and Nationalist members of Team 32 are on an unauthorized tour to the south towards Hankow. What is your knowledge of this situation? Can you do something to get Team 32 reassembled and functioning together, preferably at Hsuanhwatien?34

  1. In telegram No. 2900, June 12, Mr. Robertson informed General Marshall that “there is no information available to us here now that indicates team 32 has left its station at Hsuan Hua Tien nor that its team personnel is incomplete.” Mr. Robertson added that the American member of the team had been asked to submit a report.↩