393.1115/11–1248: Telegram
The Commander of the United States Naval Forces in the Western Pacific (Badger) to the Consul General at Shanghai (Cabot)55
[Received November 12—2:59 p.m.]
120803 Z. Your priority despatch 2386 of 11 November State Dept passed to me for information and comment. Your request for services is all that is necessary for me to provide air and/or water transportation for persons desiring to leave China for security reasons. Please inform my designated representative, Rear Admiral Entwistle, and me if you like, of your requirements in terms of what you need and when you need it. Our agreed plans already cover shuttle service to Japan where CinCFE56 stands ready at my request to receive and care for evacuees and to make arrangements for their onward routing to US. I only await the necessary information to begin the transportation of these individuals.
With regard to the gasoline, I stand ready to render assistance in this regard in case needs for evacuation purposes can be justified as differentiated from the routine operation of commercial airlines. Agree with you that all US nationals now desiring to leave area should have transportation provided now and passage facilitated as much as possible.