WAR DEPARTMENT
                            WASHINGTON                  
 
                                               December 17, 1941.
 
MEMORANDUM FOR GENERAL WATSON:
 
 
          Will you please show to the President the attached
letter received today from Mr. T. V. Soong enclosing copy of
telegram from Stalin to Chiang Kai-shek.     
 
 
 
 
 
                                               [Henry L. Stimson]
                                                Secretary of War.