Marshall Mission Files, Lot 54–D270: Telegram
Colonel George V. Underwood to Colonel Marshall S. Carter
1997. The Generalissimo asked Doctor Stuart to inform General Marshall that he (the Generalissimo) hoped that the bulk of the Army personnel made available by inactivation of the Executive Headquarters would be transferred to the Army Advisory Group. I advised Doctor Stuart that increasing the strength of the Advisory Group would necessitate a new interdepartment agreement and might also cut across the need for Army personnel in other areas. I mentioned that under present plans nuclear Army reorganization personnel would be transferred to the Army Advisory Group, but cautioned that the plan had not yet received War Department approval. I told him that I would forward the Generalissimo’s statement to General Marshall, but that for his (Doctor Stuart’s) personal information I felt reasonably sure that personnel of Executive Headquarters, other than key Army reorganization group personnel, would in all probability be assigned to areas outside China.