Office of the Historian

Madame Chiang Kai-shek to Mr. Lauchlin Currie, Administrative Assistant to President Roosevelt 15

Chungking, January 18, 1942.

Although Generalissimo repeatedly made offer through Dennys16 and later Wavell17 to send two Chinese army corps reinforce Burma force offer was declined on grounds that Burma only needs three regiments. These regiments now sent to Keng-tung while offered army corps despatched China fronts.

  1. Copy of telegram transmitted to President Roosevelt by Mr. Currie. Photostatic copy obtained from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N. Y.↩
  2. Maj. Gen. Lancelot Ernest Dennys, British Military Attaché in China.↩
  3. Gen. Sir Archibald P. Wavell, British Commander in Chief, India.↩