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

THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON January 12, 1946 Dear Congressman DeLacy: I appreciated very much your letter of December twenty-eighth in regard to the China situation. You understand that there are some three or four hundred thousand Japanese in China still under arms and until those Japanese are disarmed and evacuated we have not carried out the surrender terms to Japan. Chiang Kai-shek Government is the recognized Government of China. The Chiang Kaizshek Govern- ment supported us wholeheartedly in the war and I am inclined to be patient with the situation in China always hoping for the es blishment of a strong Chinese Government, which isto our best interest Russia and Great Britain also recognize Chiang - las the Government of China. letters General Marshall, E think, is accomelishingthe objective which werall have in vigh that is a unified Chinese Government Generalissik Stalin says the squcalled Chinese Communisis are nothing but Bandits and he has nothing whatever to do with them. Those people in this courtry 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. ARCHIVES "NATIONAL RECORDS AND : SERVICE"