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DECLASSIFIED
E. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E)
WAR DEPARTMENT
OSD letter, April 12, 1974
By NLT.
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF STAFF
HC
,
NARS
Date
7.14-75
WASHINGTON 25, D. C.
GOLD 1454
September 6, 1946
Dear Mr. President:
Since my message of August 30th, GOLD 1422, I have been to
Kuling, conferred with the Generalissimo and returned to Nanking
where I have conferred at length with Chou En Lai. Following is
the situation:
The violence of the propaganda has seriously compromised
the project for the meeting of the small group under Dr. Stuart's
chairmanship to find an agreement as a basis of organization of
the State Council. Chou En Lai communicated with Yenan regarding
the possibility of the Communists coming out with an order for
the cessation of hostilities by their armies for a given period
of days in an effort to bring the National Government to similar
action. Meanwhile different Government spokesmen, including the
Minister of Information and the Chief of Staff, made public
announcements that there would be no abatement of the five con-
ditions or stipulations by the Generalissimo before he would con-
sider a cessation of hostilities. Chou En Lai had hoped that if
the Stuart group reached an agreement on the formation of the
State Council that this could immediately be followed by the
cessation of hostilities. It has been the hope of Dr. Stuart
and myself that by addressing our efforts for the time being to
the single problem of the State Council we might make a gain
which would sufficiently influence mutual confidence to permit
the arrangement of an agreement for the termination of hostili-
ties.
As the Government campaign in Jehol continues to develop to
its advantage, the Government's stand regarding the Communists
has become the more implacable regarding the conditions for the
termination of hostilities.
In this situation I outlined for the Generalissimo in a
completely frank talk the present procedure of the Government,
as I felt it involved me and the United States Government in-
directly in procedures which were not to be tolerated. For
example, when I directed that the Marines be relieved from a
number of detached and therefore exposed posts along the rail-
road, the Marine commander was informed that the campaign then
in progress required all of the available troops in that region
until September 23, notwithstanding the fact that two armies had
recently been landed at Chinwangtao, the last one from Formosa.
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