Telegram from Edwin A. Locke, Jr. to Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley

NAVAL MESSAGE NAVY DEPART" FIT DRAFTER EXTENSION NUMBER ADDRESSEES PRECEDENCE ASTERISK (*) MAILGRAM ADDRESSEE 1 FROM Edwin A. Locke, Jr. aluena 2 PRIORITY P 3 RELEASED BY Colocked AMBASSADOR PATRICK J. HURLEY 4 ROUTINE 5 DATE 30 May 1945 CHUNGKING, CHINA DEFERRED 6 7 TOR CODEROOM DECLASSIFIED by authority of 8 DEPT. OF COMMERCE 9 DECODED BY ARCHIVES SERVICE" ITATIONAL AND ONLY LTR to WARS 11-15-7 PRIORITY 10 MEMO FROM 116 To 11 TYPED NLT 4-1-73 ROUTINE BY 12 D Initials BK2 Date: 5/21/71 DEFERRED 13 ROUTED BY 14 15 UNLFe INDICATED THIS DISPATCH WILL BE TRANSMITTED WITH DEFERRED PRECEDENCE ANJ AS ADMINISTRATIVE. IF OPERATIONAL 16 CHECK BELOW 9018 17 18 19 ORIGINATOR FILL IN DATE AND TIME: DATE 30 MAY 1945 TIME 01645 GCT 20 ON OUTGOING DISPATCHES PLEASE LEAVE ABOUT ONE INCH CLEAR SPACE BÉFORE BEGINNING TEXT ACTION 21 from Edwin a Jacke Ir for ambassador F-0 22 23 Patrick J. Hurley X F-01 24 YOUR CABLES OF MAY SIXTEENTH AND MAY TWENTIETH ARE DEEPLY APPRECIATED BY F-02 25 26 BOTH MR. NELSON AND MYSELF. REGARDING OUR SECOND MESSAGE TO YOU SENT AFTER F-05 27 F-07 28 OUR CONVERSATION WITH GENERAL OLMSTED, I WONDER WHETHER YOU HAVE YET BEEN 29 F-1 30 ABLE TO HANDLE THE MATTER AS YOU PLANNED IN CONVERSATION WITH THE F-2 31 32 GENERALISSIMO AND ALSO WHETHER YOU HAVE BEEN ABLE TO OBTAIN THE VIEWS OF F-20 33 F-3 34 GENERAL WEDEMEYER, KEARNEY AND BROOKS ON THE DURATION AND SCOPE OF OUR 35 F-30 36 PRODUCTION MISSION FROM NOW ON. I AM MOST RELUCTANT TO KEEP TROUBLING YOU 37 F-31 38 AFTER ALL YOUR SPLENDID HELP BUT I AM SURE YOU UNDERSTAND OUR NEED FOR F-32 39 F-33 40 THIS INFORMATION HERE IN DEVELOPING IMMEDIATE PLANS FOR THE MISSION'S 41 F-34 42 ACTIVITIES IN COMING MONTHSA F-4 43 44 END Admin ccm 27 FX01 45 46 FX30 RYWEL 47 FX37 48 49 Counse FX40 50 IG-00 51 SECRIT miss 52 VCNO Make original only. Deliver to Code Room Watch Officer in person. (See Art. 76 (4) NAYREGS.) OPNAV 19-67 Return to NCRWC TRANED after mapherment