Marshall Mission Files, Lot 54–D270: Telegram
General Marshall to Colonel Marshall S. Carter 45
1164. Reference your 94906, Jul 19[18], and 113946 regarding Chinese legislation. Present view follows: In the present state of my efforts to influence China governmental course of action and the determined stand and plans of political reactionaries, civil and military, I do not wish to urge the passage of the legislation. Yet I do not want it withdrawn. I think it might help me if State Department put it forward and Congress declined or failed to act on it. The consequences out here of delays in receiving equipment, etc., would be negligible compared to the importance of possible favorable influence on these people of the refusal of Congress to act at this time.
Please quickly check my proposition with Acheson or Mr. Byrnes and inform me accordingly.
- General Marshall’s representative in Washington.↩
- Latter telegram dated July 18, neither printed. In telegram No. 94906. Colonel Carter reported view concurred in by Secretary of State Byrnes that the China Aid Bill would not pass in the current session of Congress without strong personal appeal from General Marshall, and it was recommended that such an appeal be made.↩