Churchill about it but has received the reply that China was an American responsibility. General 
 
Chennault is very concerned about the situation but places the blame on failure to allocate enough 
 
material to the Fourteenth Air Force. Chennault also complains that the allocation of space on the 
 
over-the-hump air line for the B-29 project to bomb Japan is a mistake at this time because the 
 
project as a whole will be no more than a "flea bite". Supplies at the moment should go to 
 
medium bombers and fighters that can impede Japanese military operations.
 
     All the mlllualy leaders concerned feel that the present Burma offensive is unlikely to 
 
produce any major military result and certainly will not lead to the opening of a road to China in 
 
the next eighteen months.
 
     Relations between T.V. Soong and Chiang remain strained.  Soong told him that he 
 
wished to resign as Foreign Minister and leave China.  Chiang declined to accept his resignation 
 
and ordered him to stay in China.  T.V. then asked whether the Office of the Foreign Minister 
 
could be of assistance in bringing the present military situation to the attention of President 
 
Roosevelt and the