Office of the Historian

Marshall Mission Files, Lot 54–D270: Telegram

General Marshall to Mr. Walter S. Robertson, at Peiping

[Nanking,] 11 June 1946.

866. Please contact Doctor Leighton Stuart51 of Yenching University and see if he would be willing to come to Nanking for a week or 10 days, to assist me quietly by influencing certain Chinese officials of his acquaintance to a more moderate or tolerant point of view during current negotiations.

I am requesting such services of several others: Frank Price,52 Doctor Wu Yi-fang of Ginling College, General Li53 of Army Medical Corps. W. P. Mills54 suggested Dr. Stuart’s name. I would provide transportation. Arrival here would have to be during next 5 days.

  1. American President of Yenching University, Peiping.↩
  2. Dr. Price had been American adviser to President Chiang Kai-shek.↩
  3. Maj. Gen. Chen-pien Li, M. D., Director of the Serum Institute of the Chinese Ministry of War.↩
  4. Dr. Mills was head of the American missionary group at Nanking.↩