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Memorandum by the Chief of the Division of Chinese Affairs (Vincent) to the Chief of the Shipping Division (Saugstad)

[Washington,] March 26, 1945.

Reference is made to your memorandum of March 19, 19455 attaching a memorandum of February 1, 1945 from the War Shipping Administration and your reply of March 20, 1945,6 in regard to the allocation of additional merchant vessels to China.

CA perceives no objection to the proposal of the War Shipping Administration to allocate a few additional merchant vessels to the properly authorized Chinese authorities on a “bare-boat out, time-charter [Page 72] back” basis, but feels that the State Department should be consulted in the event that consideration is given to the sale or other final disposal of such American vessels to China.

J[ohn] C[arter] V[incent]
  1. Not printed; it stated: “We understand from Mr. Morse that the Navy Department has no objection to the proposal.”↩
  2. Not printed, but see footnote 59, p. 43.↩