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

change January 12, 1946 Dear Congressman DeLacy: I appreciated very much your letter of December wenty-eighth in regard to the China situation. You understand that there are some three or four hundred thousand Japanese in China still under arns and until those Japanese are disarned and evacuated we have not carried out the surrender terms to Japan. Chieng Kai-shek Government is the recognized Government of China. The Chiang Kai-shek Govern- ment supported us wholeheartsdly in the war and I an inclined to be patient with the situation in China, always hoping for the establishment of a strong Chinese Government, which is to our best interest. Russia and Great Britain also recognize Chiang Kai-shek Government as the Government of China. General Marshall, I think is accomplishing the objective which we all have in view - that is a unified Chinese Government. Generalissino Stalin says the so called Chinése Communists are nothing but bandits and he has nothing whatever to do with then. Those people in this country who are more loyal to the Russian Government than they are to their own should consider this carefully before making wild charges which have no foundation and fact. Lairy `ARCHIVES "NATIONAT SERVICE RECORDS ARD 1 s