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MR. FEIS:
between the President and Chang Kai Chek or the a too brief summary
af them, & too scattered extract of them. The lack a.° thorough
revelation of the talks in t he international conferences such as
AND Potsdam, bearing on China affairs,
all of those together, make a somewhat distorted record of our
then
China policy
to which I/add from an editorial standpoint
that I found difficulty because I didn't find definite enough,
thorough distinction between decisions that could be a guide
as major ones and secondary ones. But I repeat; I was doing that
merely as the student using it, even after years, to try to bet
in the record there, as an indication of early judgment
(not
understandable)
MR. BUNDY:
You add that a fully record would not reinforce the policy position
whic h the Department was trying to explain at the time.
MR. FEIS:
No, I would not. You
that language.
I say if you simply put the decisions of the State Department in
is ARCHIVES & "NATIONAL ADMIN
RECORDS
a different framework of fact and understanding than they weye
COVERANCE
in which it appears in that bo ok. (intmruption.) Sometimes
it would reinforce the positi on; there are other times at which
it might give ground for additional dispute or criticism of the
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