Marshall Mission Files, Lot 54–D270: Telegram
Mr. Thomas B. McCabe to Brigadier General Bernhard A. Johnson, at Shanghai
Washington, 23 March
1946.
81917. From Bell. Mar deal approved yesterday in conference of FLC officials here and Vice Admiral W. S. Farber, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, subject to the following changes.
[Page 1077][Here follow suggested changes in the draft contract.]
You are clear to proceed on this deal and sign contract as indicated above. Suggest you cable me at once whether or not this is entirely satisfactory so I may iron out any difficulties here on the spot.
Admiral Farber will issue instructions to have the material declared surplus without delay. [Bell.]