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The Second Secretary of Embassy in China (Davies) to Major General Patrick J. Hurley 44

[Yenan,] 27 October 1944.

Of such immediate and long range strategic importance that it warrants your personal visit is info that can be obtained here and which you cannot get in Chungking. I do not know, in wake of the recent wreckage, what offer on salvage plans officials at Chungking may be making but I do know that you can take significant information and proposals back to the President vitally affecting the war and future balance of power in Asia and the Pacific, if you will visit Yenan. This I know after comprehensive talks with our observers back from the field and with Chinese leaders here.

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