Office of the Historian

893.34/12–1246: Telegram

Colonel J. Hart Caughey to Colonel Marshall S. Carter

Nanking, 12 December 1946.

1871. Use of words “companion agreement” in 185786 appears to have unduly alerted the department. What was meant actually was “a separate protocol” which was discussed between Admiral Cooke and General Marshall and reflected to the Navy Department by Admiral Cooke in his 090556Z of October.87 However in view of the fact that some definite form or procedure must be adopted in order to acquire properties in question, Mister Butterworth has been requested to confer with the appropriate US agencies with a view to arriving at some common understanding as to procedure. He will then furnish information requested in 8732688 to State Department,

  1. Telegram of December 8, p. 807.↩
  2. Not found in Department files.↩
  3. Supra. ↩