Office of the Historian

893.00/2–1645: Telegram

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

Washington, February 16, 1945—9 p.m.

267. In connection with press reports in today’s and yesterday’s newspapers here of interviews given by Wang Shih-chieh, Chou En-lai and General Wedemeyer, we would appreciate receiving by radio full text of statements made to the press in Chungking by these officials.85 [Page 220] We would also appreciate receiving in a separate telegram such interpretive comment as you are in a position to make with regard to the statements.86

Grew
  1. See telegrams Nos. 245, 246, and 247, February 18, from the Ambassador in China, pp. 231, 232 and 233.↩
  2. See telegram No. 242, February 18, 11 a.m., from the Ambassador in China, p. 223.↩