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Memorandum by the Director of the Office of Far Eastern Affairs (Ballantine) to the Under Secretary of State (Grew)

[Washington,] March 2, 1945.

There is attached for your consideration a tentative list of topics for discussion with Ambassador Hurley.21 Some of these topics you may wish to discuss with Mr. Hurley, especially the subject of our policy toward China, and there are attached also for your reference two memoranda, a short one by Mr. Vincent22 dealing with the question of military support to Chinese groups in areas of American military operations and a longer one by Mr. Drumright23 (with contributions by Messrs. Stanton and Vincent) dealing with a wider range of problems. You will of course also wish to consider in this connection the contents of Mr. Atcheson’s telegram no. 324, February 28, 1 p.m.

I assume that you will wish to delegate to us in FE the discussion of most of the topics in the attached list.

J[oseph] W. B[allantine]
  1. Not printed.↩
  2. March 1, p. 247.↩
  3. March 2, p. 249.↩