Office of the Historian

Marshall Mission Files, Lot 54–D270: Telegram

Colonel J. Hart Caughey to General Marshall, at Kuling

[Nanking,] August 17, 1946.

1335. Met General Chou 9:30 this evening in response your memo to me.69 The Communist Party is not prepared to nominate State Council representatives. Specifically Communists will be ready to nominate representatives when terms of cease firing agreements have been arranged and when the small group of which Doctor Stuart would be chairman has worked out a basis of government reorganization. Complete report will follow in memo.70

  1. See penultimate paragraph of notes of meeting of General Marshall with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, p. 51.↩
  2. See telegram No. 1337, August 18, infra. ↩