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Memorandum by the Adviser on Political Relations (Hornbeck)
The Chinese Ambassador read to me this morning from a letter which he had just received by air mail from the Secretary-General of the People’s Political Council, at Chungking, who is an Adviser to Chiang Kai-shek on Foreign Affairs. In the course of this letter the writer said, in substance:
Our source of military supplies is now confined to the transcontinental route of the northwest. But the Soviet Union does not seem to have much enthusiasm for increasing supplies to us or for permitting us to import arms and munitions through Vladivostok. Negotiations on those two matters have had so far no results. For this reason, we must concentrate our effort on the reopening of the Burma Road.