123 [Bacon, Leonard L.]: Telegram

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

636. Ur 956 May 7. Dept agrees desirability request Commies authorize Bacon travel Dairen via Manchuria or Chinese vessel ex Tientsin (likewise Colling if Shanghai falls). Dept suggests however that application permission more properly made Nanking since Bacon now there.

Dept deferring assignment Boorman Dairen to allow completion language course July.

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