WAR DEPARTMENT
                                       WAR DEPARTMENT GENERAL STAFF
                                                  OPERATIONS DIVISION
                                                           WASHINGTON
 
 
                                                                                                                         April 24, 1942
                                
            MEMORANDUM FOR MR. HOPKINS, WHITE HOUSE:
                                
                                
               Attached hereto is a suggested draft for a
                                
    reply by the President to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek.
                                
                                  
               Admiral King has not seen this draft, but
                                
          General Marshall has tentatively approved i
                                
             Will you please revise as you see fit and
                                
    return to me as soon as possible in order that reply may
                                
          be dispatched with least practicable delay.
 
 
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
Major General, 
Assistant Chief of Staff.
 
Inc.
Draft of reply.