Office of the Historian

761.93/1–346: Telegram

The Chargé in China (Robertson) to the Secretary of State

Chungking, January 3, 1945 [1946]—4 p.m.
[Received January 4—8:41 p.m.]

24. According to General Marshall, on Christmas Day Generalissimo informed him that Stalin28 had requested or invited him to send a special representative to Moscow. Generalissimo asked for Marshall’s advice. He replied that he saw no disadvantage in sending a special representative but that unless the individual was a dominant character of effective personality nothing constructive would result. (Moscow’s 253, December 31 to Chungking29). Other than this incident nothing is known of the matter. (Sent Moscow as 3; repeated Dept as 24).

[Here follows personal greeting by General Marshall.]

Robertson
  1. Marshal Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin, Chairman of the Council of Commissars of the Soviet Union.↩
  2. See Foreign Relations, 1945, vol. vii, footnote 58, p. 799.↩