Marshall Mission Files, Lot 54–D270: Telegram
Mr. Walter S. Robertson to Lieutenant General Alvan C. Gillem, Jr.
1467. Byroade’s garbled Eyes Alone message75 to you and me received this afternoon was sufficiently decipherable to indicate that our teams will be helplessly immobilized in Manchuria until agreement can be reached at the highest levels upon the basic questions in dispute. The Communists here have been following a similar line as Chou in Chungking and Yao in Mukden. A few days ago in conference General Lo, Communist Chief of Staff and acting for Commissioner Yeh who is ill, took the position that the cease fire order and the jurisdiction of Executive Headquarters did not originally apply to Manchuria and therefore new agreements would have to be reached covering the situation there. Evidently this is the line which has been laid down in Yenan. Is there any information you can give me as to the probable decisions which will be reached by the Committee of Three governing the activity of our teams in Manchuria and are there any suggestions as to the instructions we should issue teams pending further Chungking decisions?
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