Letter from Congressman Hugh De Lacy to President Harry S. Truman

HUGH DE LACY MEMBER: FIRST DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON COMMITTEE ON NAVAL AFFAIRS 136 HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING HOME ADDRESS: Congress of WHITE HOULD 315 SEATTLE, WASHINGTON H. RICHARD SELLER SECRETARY of DEC31 10 58 AM Washington, D. C. ACCENCO December 28, 1945 President Harry S. Truman The White House Washington, D. C. ARCHIVES AND Dear Mr. President: : I write with a disturbed mind, Mr. President, over an Associated Press dispatch from Shanghai, indicating that General Weydemeyer, if he is correctly quoted, is trying to do to your own clearly stated policy the same violence Hurleyldid to Roosevelt's. "Plans," he is reported to have said, "plans are under consideration to move additional [Chinese] Armies to Man- churia. and more American Army troops would be needed to accompany them, supervise debarkation, handle supply problems and give other aid. "This, he told a news conference, is in line with America's ne wly broadened policy of aid to the national government of Generalissimo Chiáng Kai -shek it would mean bringing an additional 3,000 to 4,000 [American troops] from America or from other military theaters. 11 The same story quotes him as saying that we would have to transport more Chinese Nationalist Troops north and says, "He [the General] already has informed his troops that in view of what he termed the bro-Chiang policy of the United States, they will not be go ing home as soon as they had expected. He has cancelled two troopship sailings. As I read your own statement and the objectives set forth in the MOSCOW Declaration, which have both heartened supporters of a united and democratic and forward moving China, America's policy is not pro-Chiang or pro-Communist or pro - -Democratic League. It strongly urges a representative government of all Chine so groups. It even conditions future loans and assistance upon the attainment of such a representative government. I can only believe that General Wedemeyer's stat ement is meant to prejudice Marshall's work and keep your own statement of policy from properly illuminating the path