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OCR Page 1 of 187/23/53 - Wire 4, p. 1.
HF.
in that meeting
you drew up the memo sponsoring President Truman, to read. to say.
to
stay in Washington in order to get that answer, becausewe won't word that memorandum
allow to suggest that you had prepared it and that was the answer on the 36 or 39 Divisions.
Now, what the answer was, we would equip those Divisions corresponding sides. But then
there was one on the political position of doing this, with ambigMous import. In that
same memo, and you have that in the White Paper September 1945, I think you will find
that in the White Paper
then that question of what aid to give to China became involved
in
this
whole question of what we would base our China policy and stay in China instead of
getting out of China. That'
I don't say this by way of apology-- say it by way of
explanation-if you 'ind my verbal statement a little bit difficult to follow, I can assure
between
you that to get the relationships pr these events right and in order it was one of the
hardest jobs of exposition I had ever done--it was terribly hard to trace.
TRUMAN
DA. I have a very great recollection of this--1 haven't any recollection of
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RECORDS
ADMIN
(several talking at once)
COVERINARY
DA. A 939-page document. As I r ead it it seems familiar, and yet I haven't the faintest
(Sung)
recollection of who produced the document-- I remember that ? was round-- I can't visualize
the meeting with him.
HF. He came in to see you I irst--immediately put f orthe the question, saying, "Dean,
I've
got to talk this over with the President, II and he went over to talk with the President, and
I
then/prepared this memorandum, and he r ead it to
?
But you see the paragraph in
there to which I alluded
DA. "Having statements by the eneralissino, the China's internal political difficulties
will be settled by political means, which should be e learly understood that Military
would
(sounds like trepi-
assistance furnished by the United States not be diverted to use in
?
/ site)
or warfare, or to support undemocratic administrations.
HF.
could never I igure out what was meant by that.
DA. That was echoed in some part of the instruction to General Marshall.
Q. May I interrupt just a second--They can flag the Senator for you, they think, at
4:15 at Princeton Junction if you'd like to get away in the middle of the afternoon.
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