103.9169[/6–445]: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Consul General at Kunming (Langdon)
126. On Presidential and Cabinet level decision made furnish Chinese with 4,000 additional trucks as part anti-inflation program. (From Willauer FEA for McCann.78 Chinese anti-inflation program) General Olmsted thoroughly familiar and approved this requirement while here. Trucks will be furnished out of army cut backs and presumably will be standard military models. Unable ascertain yet whether medium or light heavy. Please cable urgently your preference distribution between medium and light heavy. Most probably will be 1½ ton four by four Chevrolets out of late third quarter US production. [Willauer.]
Sent to Kunming, repeated to Chungking.79