ARMY RADIOGRAM
                                
                        PARAPHRASED COPY
                                
FROM: CHUNGKING 
20 DECEMBER 1941
 
GENERALISSIMO ASKED THAT I INFORM YOU THAT HE IS SORRY HE IS UNABLE
TO REPORT RESULTS OF CONSULTATIONS OF JOINT PRELIMINARY MILITARY
CONFERENCE BY THE PARTICULAR TIME REQUESTED X IT IS NOT EXPECTED
THAT GENERAL WAVELL WILL ARRIVE PRIOR TO TWENTY-SECOND OR TWENTY-THIRD X ON DECEMBER TWENTY-FIRST GENERAL BRETT WILL ARRIVE FROM
RANGOON X IT HAS BEEN REQUESTED OF THE GOVERNOR OF DUTCH EAST
INDIES THAT HE SEND SOMEONE TO REPRESENT HIM X THE DUTCH
GOVERNMENT IN LONDON HAS GIVEN AUTHORITY TO THE HEAD OF ITS MISSION
TO ACT UNTIL THE ARRIVAL OF THE REGULARLY APPOINTED REPRESENTATIVE
X NO ORDERS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED BY THE MILITARY MISSION FROM RUSSIA X
DIFFICULTIES IN COMMUNICATIONS HAVE MADE IT IMPOSSIBLE TO NOTIFY
GENERAL BRETT THE EXACT CONTENT OF HIS INSTRUCTIONS BUT HE HAS BEEN
URGENTLY REQUESTED TO ARRIVE IN CHUNGKING AS SOON AS HE CAN GET
HERE X THE SECRETARY OF WAR AND CHIEF OF STAFF HAVE BEEN FURNISHED
WITH THE ABOVE INFORMATION X
                              MAGRUDER.
                                   2230, 21 December 1941.