THE U.S. AND THE QUESTION OF HONG KONG 1941-45
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◄ Hornbeck to Cordell Hull, secretary of state, 20 May 1942, Hornbeck Papers (Hoover Institute, Stanford University), box 465.
* Generally see Thorne, op. cit., p. 163, and note 51 on pp. 168-9, referring to Leahy's diary and the King Papers. Also Hornbeck's memorandum, 3 October 1942, Hornbeck Papers, box 180.
• Ballantine's diary in Ballantine Papers (Hoover Institute, Stanford University), box 1. Also see Tung Hsien-kuang, Chiang Tsung-t'ung ch’uan (Biography of Chiang Kai-shek; Taipei, 1954), II, pp. 343-4; and B. W. Tuchman, Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 (New York, 1971), p. 352.
'Hornbeck's memorandum, 20 May 1942, op. cit.
8 The two sets of statistics are available in Hornbeck Papers, box 466 and box 467 respectively.
"Thorne, op. cit., pp. 175-6.
1o Announcement of the loan was made on 1 February, but the agreement was not signed until 21 March. For details of the loan and its use during subsequent years, see Department of State, United States Relations with China (hereafter US and China; Washington, 1949), pp. 470-71.
11 Hornbeck's autobiography, Hornbeck Papers, box 497.
12 For more details, see US and China, p. 37,
1a Madame Chiang, however, was intensely disliked by Roosevelt's household staff at Hyde Park who found her "arrogant and overbearing", W. D. Hassett, then aide to President Roosevelt, Off the Record with F.D.R. (Rutgers University Press, 1958), pp. 181-2, 288.
14 For text of the relevant treaty between the United States and China, see US and China, pp. 514-7.
15 For more details, see ibid., p. 37.
1 Chinese leaders freely expressed their anti-British sentiments to the Americans; see, for example, H. Morgenthan, Morgenthau Diary (China; Washington, 1965), II, pp. 862-895.
17 Minute of Sir John Brenan, a veteran official in the Far Eastern Department of the British Foreign Office, on Anglo-Chinese relations since the outbreak of the Pacific War, 3 November 1942, Foreign Office (hereafter FO) 371/31627.
18 For elaboration on this point, see author's article, "The Abrogation of British Extraterritoriality in China 1942-43: A Study of Anglo-American Chinese Relations", Modern Asian Studies, 11, 2 (1977), pp. 262-3.
19 Thorne, op. cit., p. 195.
20 Details of the British discussion leading to the invitation are available in FO 371/31627. The British government was understandably embarrassed by the Chinese response. Ashley Clarke, an official in the Far Eastern Department, confided this point to Stanley Hornbeck, his opposite number in the Department of State. See Hornbeck's attempt to explain for Madame Chiang, Hornbeck to Clarke, strictly confidential, 27 February 1943, Hornbeck Papers, box 467.
21 Thorne, op. cit., p. 161.
22 "The Hong Kong Question during the Pacific War (1941-45)", p. 58.