Office of the Historian

893.00/5–445: Telegram

The Ambassador in China (Hurley) to the Secretary of State

Chungking, May 4, 1945—6 p.m.
[Received May 4—11:20 a.m.]

723. Many of the recent editorials in the Chungking press commenting on Sino-Russian relations (Embassy’s 719 [724], May 3 [4], 6 [7] p.m.26) are so similar that they appear to have been written under detailed instructions from the Ministry of Information. This tends to substantiate a report from a reliable source that the Ministry of Information has in fact issued a recent directive to the Chinese press to print nothing derogatory to the USSR.

Sent to the Department, repeated to Moscow.

Hurley
  1. Infra. ↩