Telegram from Donald M. Nelson to Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley

NAVAL MESSAGE NAVY DEPART DRAFTER EXTENSION NUMBER ADDRESSEES PRECEDENCE ASTERISK (*) MAILGRAM ADDRESSEE 1 FROM DonaldMDelson 2 alumn changent PRIORITY ROUTINE 3 RELEASED BY X 4 Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley 5 DATE April 24, 1945 FOR DEFERRED x 6 Chungking, China 7 TOR CODEROOM 8 DECODED BY is ARCHIVES ANO DECLASSIFIED by authority of 9 SERVICE" DEPT. OF COMMERCE 47R PRIORITY 10 GOVERN To NARS 11-15-73- 11 TYPED MEME FROM NL To ROUTINE WLT 4-12-73 12 CODRESS TED BY- DEFERRED 13 51. Initials 14 15 WBISPATCH WILL BE TRANSMITTED WITH DEFERRED PRECEDENCE AN3 IF OPERATIONAL 16 CHECK BELOW 241715 2774 17 18 ORIGINATOR FILL IN DATE AND TIME: 24 April 1945 DATE 19 TIME GCT 20 ON OUTGOING DISPATCHES PLEASE LEAVE ABOUT ONE INCH CLEAR SPACE BEFORE BEGINNING TEXT ACTION From passx nelson to turley xalumn chunghing 21 F-0 22 23 I have just learned that the Henry Kaiser Company recently F-01 24 F-02 25 executed a memorandum of understanding with the Ming Sung Industrial 26 F-05 27 Company for the purpose of jointly engaging in the construction and F-07 28 29 operation of a shipyard in Shanghai. Mr. T. F. Lu, President of Ming Sung, F-1 30 left for Chungking today by air. Upon arrival he wishes to acquaint you F-2 31 32 F-20 33 personally regarding his arrangement with Kaiser. I hope very much that F-3 34 35 you can see him, as I am rather concerned by fact that Mr. Lu plans to F-30 36 37 F-31 announce this agreement publicly. 1 In my opinion this would not (repeat 38 F-32 39 not) be desirable at present time. First, as you well know, the agreement F-33 40 41 can have no real validity until China adopts a modern legal system, F-34 42 F-4 43 especially sound corporate laws. / Second, I feel that a public announcement 44 FX01 45 of it now might simply serve to divert Chinese efforts and attention away FX30 46 47 from the more immediate problems of winning the war. If you agree with my FX37 48 49 FX40 views, I hope you can prevail upon Mr. Lu to withhold any announcement 50 IG-00 51 ADDRESS 52 VCNO SECRIT Make original only. Deliver to Code Room Watch Officer in person. (See Art. 76 (4) NAVREGS.) OPNAV 19-67