Office of the Historian

893.50 Recovery/9–148: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in China (Stuart)

Washington, October 1, 1948—8 p.m.

1388. Response Chinese request Dept Sept 30 authorized Treasury pay direct to Army approximately $38 million to provide arms and ammo chargeable against $125 million grants (Deptel 1338 Sept 1820 ). Army has indicated discussion re prices continuing with Chinese and availability checks in progress to determine source from which stocks will come.

Including this payment disbursements from grants as of Sept. 30 totaled $88,275,409.62.

Lovett
  1. Not printed; it repeated text of memorandum by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, September 9, p. 167.↩