received an official reply to that approach, although we know that the United States Chiefs of Staff have informed the State Department that they have no military objection to the proposal. We consider that this question should be raised again. 9. It had been hoped to persuade the President of the United States to recognise the oral understanding reached by Admiral Mountbatten with the Generalissimo as regards pre-occupational activities in Indo-China (see para. 5 above). The President's latest telegram on the subject to the Prime Minister (No.