893.50 Recovery/5–648: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Shanghai (Cabot)
920. From Hoffman, ECA. Reur 1002 May 6. Your reference to nature of control and direction by Administrator of Rural Reconstruction Commission seems somewhat too narrow from standpoint of clear intent legislation. While day to day control will certainly be exercised through allocations from CNC account and dollar allocations through program sponsored by Commission, law clearly indicates Commission responsible to Administrator. Necessary relationships with Government, in order to fit Commission program and purely Government programs together will be worked out in special bilateral agreement covering establishment of Mission. Draft this agreement now under discussion. Negotiations on it will be held Nanking.
ECA plans send Moyer to China as part of Reconstruction Survey Group20 scheduled leave Washington last week in May.
Sent Shanghai as 920, repeated Nanking as 737. [Hoffman, ECA.]
- The Reconstruction Survey Mission arrived in China in June, charged with recommending to the ECA the allocation of funds for reconstruction projects under the China Aid Act of 1948. Its director was Charles L. Stillman.↩