740.0011 European War 1939/30697: Telegram
The Chargé in China (Atcheson) to the Secretary of State
[Received 11:59 p.m.]
1468. Embassy’s 1469, 14th.11 Having in mind the already great mistrust here of Soviet Russian intentions (Embassy’s 1438, August 12, 6 p.m., paragraph 2)12 the references in this despatch in regard to Stalin and Soviet Russia appear to us to be almost in the nature of deliberate propaganda. As the dissemination of such material in China is unquestionably harmful to the cause of unity among the United Nations and therefore to the general war effort, we wonder whether it might not be possible without giving cause for justifiable complaint (especially in the light of the relentlessly and arbitrarily strict Chinese censorship of American news correspondents here) for our appropriate people at home to take steps to see that despatches such as the one in question, especially when their factual basis is nebulous, are not passed for transmission to this country.