Marshall Mission Files, Lot 54–D270: Telegram
Mr. Walter S. Robertson 55 to General Marshall 56
9336. Upon receipt of your 158157 on 30 September a special meeting of the Three Commissioners was called for the purpose of determining if the 2 Chinese Commissioners had received instructions from their respective representatives on the Committee of Three regarding Team 25. No instructions had been received. The Commissioners were then informed that, to preclude further delay, the U. S. Branch proposed to instruct its team member to hear the remaining witness and submit a final report. General Yeh58 then requested opportunity to contact General Chou En-lai for instructions. Airlift on one of our regular runs to Shanghai was provided his representative, [Page 281] General Huang,59 for this purpose. In attempt to obtain full team action in concluding investigation we agreed to postpone the hearing for 2 days. On afternoon of 2 October, having heard nothing further from Communist Party Commissioner, he was informed by memo that U. S. member of Team 25 would hear remaining witnesses as planned on 3 October. This morning, 3 October, General Yeh advised he had no word from General Chou and on basis of my memorandum understood that we would proceed with hearings by U. S. team member. He was informed that each Sino Branch was invited to have observer present and that transcript of testimony would be furnished.
U. S. team member Colonel Davis60 initiated hearings of these 2 witnesses afternoon 3 October. He has been directed to submit his report without delay appending other 2 Branches’ position if made available to him.
- American Commissioner of Executive Headquarters at Peiping.↩
- Apparently drafted October 3.↩
- Dated September 29, p. 242.↩
- Yeh Chien-ying, Chinese Communist Party Commissioner of Executive Headquarters, Peiping.↩
- Maj. Gen. Huang Yi-feng, Chinese Communist Party’s senior member of Team 25 investigating the Anping incident.↩
- M. F. Davis, U. S. Army, American senior member of Team 25.↩