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        "Soong, T. V., (Tzu-wen), 1894-1971",
        "Chiang, May-ling Soong, 1897-2003",
        "Hurley, Patrick J. (Patrick Jay), 1883-1963",
        "Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975",
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        "World War, 1939-1945",
        "Reconstruction (1939-1951)"
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    "ocrText": "The Generalissime was greatly disturbed by the constant reports that\nwere coming to him as to Soviet renovals of industry from Manchuria, We both\nrealized that China's recovery would be disastrously delayed if the great\nManchurian industrial complex were seriously damaged. Chiang told me that he\nhad protested to the Soviets concerning these reported removals, but that his\nintelligence reports made it clear that they were continuing.\nThe results of the meeting were somewhat indefinite. Chiang, like Soong,\nmade it clear that China wanted and needed reparations, but it was evident\nthat there had been no systematic study, designed to show specifically what\nindustries China could use, or where, or how they would be operated. Chiang\nagreed with me that any reparations that were assigned to Manchuria would be\nvulnerable to possible future Soviet penetration.\nWe were taken to the Chiang's country place for the night. There was a\nmain house, and three guest houses; and we were given the one that was known\nas \"The Hurley house\", in honor of General Patrick Hurley, the former American\nAmbassador.\nMadame Chiang was especially proud of a new innerspring mattress which,\nshe had just received from the United States, and she told General Waung, who\nhad been assigned to me as military aide, to see to it that I had it to sleep\non. I am glad that she did not know the result of this gracious gesture, because --\nand I am ertain she was not aware of it at the time the mattress had\napparently been made éspecially for her, and was not more than five feet long.\nSince I am six-feet-four, the inadequacy can readily be imagined:\n42E229"
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