893.50 Recovery/5–649
The Director of the Office of Far Eastern Affairs (Butterworth) to the Director of the China Program of the Economic Cooperation Administration (Cleveland)
Dear Mr. Cleveland: The receipt is acknowledged of your undated letter,49 which I received on May 6, 1949, asking for my views with respect to the prospects of a program for Taiwan that might involve the engineering services of the J. G. White Engineering Corporation.
For your confidential information, the Department is instructing Mr. Livingston T. Merchant, Counselor of Embassy now on detail at Taipei, to return to Washington in the immediate future for the purpose of consultation in regard to various problems on Taiwan. Upon his return he will be available for discussion with ECA of the question of the J. G. White Engineering Corporation and related matters. It would seem desirable, therefore, to take no action in this matter pending the arrival of Mr. Merchant.
Sincerely yours,
- Supra.↩