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which Marshall must follow if America is to be a true
friend to the millions upon millions of Chinese who so
badly need agricultural reforms and the beginnings of
self - -government.
It is disturbing, too, to see persisting reports
of Japanese being kept armed and assigned by Chinese
Nationalist officers to guarding the same communication
lines our own Marines are stationed on. UP writer Ralph
Johstone first reported this shocking situation, and
this week Lieberman of the New York Times wrote two
articles revealing that we are not disarming the Japanese
in North China, but using them, or some of them, and
their Chinese puppets to suppress anti-Chiang movements.
Mr. President, as long as armed Japs are being used
to bolster the strength of the Chungking Government, America
will not be able to understand why we should keep Marines
there or why Wedemeyer should becalling for more America
troops to be sent to China.
In particular, the General must be called to account
for cancelling troopships homeward bound and for distorting,
in Hurley's manner, your policy, in which the world took
such encouragement.
By what right does any General make policy utterances
which are at central variance with the policy utterance of
the President of the United States? By what right does
he say that we must move more troops for Chiang when our
own State Department has said that any further troop move-
ments would have to be approved by General Marshall, and
only then on Marshall's judgment that such movements would
not imperil negotiations for unity between the Chinese
groups?
By 1 eaving Wedemeyer in China and permitting him to
create an adverse framework for General Marshall's labors,
we are undermining the sound and clear policies set forth
in your own statement and in general objectives at Moscow
in the recent conference.
I hope, Mr. President, that you will see fit to get
Wedemeyer out of China. I venture to hope, also, that you
will withdraw military support and military supplies from
Chiang's government, as our quickest means of getting our
own mon home and bring the strongest pressure for a working
agreement between the three large groups that should be
in the representative Chinese government you recently called
for.
Respectfully yours,
ARCHIVES NATIONAL SERVICE" KECORD$ AMD
the
High Hugh be Lacy; D M. Lecy C.
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