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Marshall Mission Files, Lot 54–D270

Memorandum by Colonel J. Hart Caughey 81a to the Minister-Counselor of Embassy in China (Butterworth)

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Nanking, 29 November 1946.

Reference is made to 1779, 18 November 1946, copy of which was furnished to you. Colonel Carter has now advised us that he has arranged for the temporary suspension of actual transfer of the subject escort carriers to the Chinese.

J. Hart Caughey
  1. Executive Officer on General Marshall’s staff at Nanking.↩