Office of the Historian

893.24/1190: Telegram

Mr. Lauchlin Currie, Administrative Assistant to President Roosevelt, to Madame Chiang Kai-shek 10

[Washington,] October 16, 1941.

Shipping 285 anti-aircraft 50-caliber guns. No more available at present owing to necessity of arming all our merchant ships. Hope for more later. Authority has been granted for you to hire 200 more pilots here.

  1. Copy received in the Department on October 17.↩