Marshall Mission Files, Lot 54–D270
Minutes of Meeting Between Dr. Stuart and Colonel Hutchin at Nanking, August 29, 1946, 11:30 a.m.
Dr. Stuart: I wanted to pass to General Marshall the information that I had just obtained from Dr. T. V. Soong, reference the nominees for our special committee. They are:
- Wu Tieh Cheng
- Secretary General of the Kuomintang party.
- Chang Li Sheng
- Ministry of Home Affairs.
Both are party men.
They have planned to go to Kuling tomorrow in order to obtain explicit instructions from the Generalissimo; this means there will be [Page 96] a delay in our special group getting started just that much longer.
The nominees are not the best people possible but I believe they are at least a workable combination with our special committee. Naturally I would have preferred the appointment of Shao Li-tze.16
- Secretary General of the People’s Political Council.↩