EN ROUTE TO CHINA

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 200, 22 May 1944, Page 5

EN ROUTE TO CHINA

Vice-President Of United States (British Official Wireless.) (Received May 21, 8.10 p.m.) RUGBY, May 20. White House has released the following statement by President Roosevelt: “I have asked the Vice-President of the United .States, Mr. Wallace, to serve as messenger for me in China. He is taking with him Mr. John Carter Vincent, of the division of Chinese Affairs of the State Department, Mr. Owen Lattimore,

deputy-director of the overseas branch of the 0.W.1., and Mr. John Hazard, chief liaison officer of the division for Soviet supply of the Foreign Economic' Administration.

“Eastern Asia will play a very important part in the future history of the world,” said Mr. Roosevelt. “Forces are being unleashed there which are of the utmost importance to our future peace and prosperity. The Vice-President, because of his present position as well as his training- in economics and agriculture, is unusually well fitted to bring both to me and the people of the United States a most valuable first-hand report. “For the time being nothing more can be- said of certain aspects of the VicePresident’s trip. Suffice it to say that he will be .visiting dozens of places which I have long wanted to see. He left today. and will report to me upon his return, which is expected about the middle of July.”