Office of the Historian

500.CC/9–2844

The British Ambassador (Halifax) to the Secretary of State

No. 598
Washington, September 28, 1944.

Sir: I have the honour to inform you, with reference to my note number 473 of August 1st., under instructions from His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, that Sir Alexander Cadogan, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, is expected to leave Washington shortly for the United Kingdom, accompanied by Sir William Malkin, G.C.M.G., C.B., K.G., Mr. Peter Loxley, Colonel Capel Dunn, Mr. A. H. Poynton, and Mr. Paul Falla.

After their departure the Delegation to continue talks with the United States and Chinese Delegations57 will consist of the following, with myself in charge:58

  • Admiral Sir Percy Noble,59
  • Lieutenant General G. N. Macready,
  • Air Marshal Sir William Welch,60
  • Sir George Sansom61
  • Mr. Gladwyn Jebb
  • Professor C. K. Webster
  • Mr. Paul Gore-Booth
  • Mr. A. It. K. Mackenzie (Press Officer)

  1. For lists of American and Chinese representatives during the Anglo-American-Chinese phase of discussions, see announcement to the press by the Acting Secretary of State on August 1, and letter of August 21 from the Chinese Ambassador, pp. 698 and 712, respectively.↩
  2. The British Ambassador informed the Secretary of State on September 28 and 30 of the two following additions to the list of United Kingdom Delegation: Maj. Gen. Grove-White and Berkeley Gage, a member of the British Foreign Office.↩
  3. He was succeeded shortly by Commodore A. W. Clarke.↩
  4. He was succeeded shortly by Air Vice-Marshal H. P. Willock.↩
  5. Minister, Adviser on Far Eastern Affairs, British Embassy in the United States.↩