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Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams
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Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams
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Records of the Naval Aide to the President (Truman Administration)
State Department Briefs Files
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Stuart, John Leighton, 1876-1962
Smith, Walter Bedell, 1895-1961
Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975
Bevin, Ernest, 1881-1951
Berlin Blockade, 1948-1949
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
WASHINGTON
August 11, 1948
SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS
CHINA
Ambassador Stuart reports that he is in full agreement
with the senior military officers on his staff that
while there remains some hope for the Chinese national government,
the tide continues to run against the Chiang Kai-shek regime and
we should be prepared to meet a serious political crisis which may
occur at any time. These advisers point out that in the face of
a gloomy military picture, the government continues to ignore com-
petent military advice; on the economic front the government is
incapable of finding a satisfactory solution so long as it maintains
the present large military establishment; and on the psychological
front there is now a spirit of defeatism throughout the country
including some men of cabinet rank and at the same time universal
criticism of Chiang for his ineffective leadership.
GERMANY
The US, UK and French governments are in agreement that
the proposed Soviet draft on the Berlin situation is
entirely unsatisfactory. Bevin has forwarded to the British repre-
sentative in Moscow strong reservations on practically every point
in the Soviet proposal, with which we concur. Wie are also informing
Ambassador Smith that it seems apparent the Soviet government is
seeking to establish the thesis that quadripartite control of Germany
and consequently of Berlin has lapsed and therefore the only four-
power agreement on Berlin will be the one now in the process of nego-
tiation. We cannot accept this position and are instructing Smith to
include in the record, in order to avoid future misunderstandings, a
statement that all previous four-power agreements with respect to
Germany continue in effect and cannot be abrogated by the unilateral
assertion of the Soviet Union.
DECLASSIFIED
State He NARS, Date 11-13-to
Dept. Guideline, June 12, 1979
E.0. 12065, Sec. 3-402
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