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23 PREPARING OFFICE TELEGRAM SENT TO BE TRANSMITTED WILL INDICATE WHETHER x CONFIDENTIAL CODE X (Full rate NONCONFIDENTIAL CODE Collect Day letter Department of Date PARTAIR Night letter PLAIN Charge Department: "A" Full rate Washinglon, 23 Day letter November 20, 1940 Night letter Charge to AMELBASSY, Was Naval Radio $ TR. CHUNGKING (CHINA). h heing Thli, wall if confedertial PRICRITY 196 Your 577, November 20, 9 a.m. to anyene. A-r before Code. STRICTLY co !FIDENTIAL. We appreciate the thoughtfulness of Chiang Kai-shek to in having taken steps to communicate us the information contained in your telegram under reference. From the information in our possession it appears that the recent Hitler-Molotov conversations at Berlin are one of a series and that they will probably be continued in one or were more places; that the Berlin conversations [save been ar- ranged at least in part for the purpose of their psychological and propaganda effect upon various governments and peoples; and that it may be expected that the Axis and associated governments will endeavor to use the fact of the con- versations to their advantage in diplomacy as well as in propaganda. We have no repeat no reason to believe that there have come out of the conversations any definitive agreements, at least in so far as the Far East is concerned. We have received no : ARCHIVES 'NATIONAL SERVICE* RECORDS of AND I Enciphered by Sent by operator M., 19 u.s. PRINTING

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