THE U.S. AND THE QUESTION OF HONG KONG 1941-45

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K'ai-shek's Visit to India, February 1942", The Australian Journal of History and Political Science, XXI, no. 2 (1975), pp. 52-61, in which the American attitude is discussed.

40 Memorandum by Hopkins, 15 March 1943, in FRUS, the British Commonwealth, Eastern Europe, the Far East, 1943, III, p. 17.

41 Sherwood, op. cit., p. 719, and H. C. Allen, Great Britain and the United States (London, 1954), p. 828.

42 For a summary of the allied military situation at the end of 1943, see J. M. Burns, Roosevelt: the Lion and the Fox (New York, 1956), p. 464. **Hornbeck to Ashley Clarke, 16 December 1943(?), in Hornbeck Papers, box 469.

44 Hornbeck's autobiography, op. cit.

46 Hornbeck's memorandum, 15 November, on his conversation with Churchill, Hornbeck Papers, box 468.

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16 Hornbeck to Hull, 3 January 1944; also see Hornbeck's memorandum, 3 December 1943, Hornbeck Papers, box 181.

47 C. Hull, The Memoirs of Cordell Hull (New York, 1948), II, p. 1599, 4 Hornbeck's autobiography, op. cit., and J. Bishop, FDR's Last Year (New York, 1974), p. 40.

**E. Roosevelt, As He Saw It (New York, 1946), pp. 163-4, 203-4, 249-50; J. T. Flynn, The Roosevelt Myth (New York, 1948), p. 349; Hull, op. cit., II, p. 1596; and T. H. White (ed.), The Stilwell Papers (New York, 1976), p. 252. Stilwell was summoned to the conference to discuss China.

50 See SWNCC III, secret, 17 April 1945, in ABC 014 Japan (13 April 44) see 32, National Archives.

01 See minutes of the meeting in FRUS, The Conferences at Malta and Yalta, 1945 (Washington, 1955), p. 769. Also F. L. Loewenheim (ed.), Roosevelt and Churchill: Their Secret Wartime Correspondence (New York, 1975), p. 656.

52 FRUS, ibid., pp. 664-5, 676.

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58 Thorne, op. cit., p. 549.

54 Tung, op. cit., p. 61.

55 Bishop, op. cit., p. 95.

56 Division of Public Liaison and Office of Public Information, Department of State, "Fortnightly Survey of American Opinion on International Affairs", Survey no. 13, confidential, 18 October, Survey no. 14, confidential, 6 November, and Survey no. 15, confidential, 20 November 1944.

57 Examples of these booklets are: "The British Commonwealth and Empire" (May 1944), and "Britain and Japan" (June 1944).

**See paragraph six of the Chapter of the Combined Civil Affairs Committee at Washington, FO371/46251.

**SWNCC 111, 17 April 1945, op. cit.

SWNCC 111, 17 April 1945, ibid.

61 SWNCC 111/2, top secret, 14 June 1945, in ABC 014 Japan (13 April 44) see 32.

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