WAR DEPARTMENT W A S H I N G T O N December 13, 1941. Dear Mr. President: I am sending a draft which may assist you in framing a message to Chiang Kai-shek for such conference in Chungking as you suggested this morning. Since leaving you I find that there is here already a military mission from Great Britain duly authorized to confer on just such matters as you are suggesting; also that there are fully qualified representatives of Australia, the Dutch East Indies, and China, who could confer with us here on Just such matters as you suggested for Singapore. I suggest that such a preliminary conference might be held here instead of at Singapore. So far as the Moscow conference is concerned, I do not feel that I am in possession of sufficient acquaintance with the addressee or familiarity with what you proposeto discuss with himto make any attempt at such a draft by me of very much use to you. Faithfully yours, Secretary of War. The President, The White House. |