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    "ocrText": "MEMBER:\nHUGH DE LACY\nCOMMITTEE ON NAVAL AFFAIRS\nFIRST DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON\n136 HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING\nHOME ADDRESS:\nSEATTLE, WASHINGTON\nCongress of the United States\nH. RICHARD SELLER\nSECRETARY\nHouse of Representatibes\nWashington, D. €.\nFebruary 13, 1946\nPresident Harry S. Truman\nThe White House\nWashington, D. C.\nDear Mr. President:\nEvery informed American must be gratified that your re-\nenunciation of American policy and your representative, General\nMarshall, have played so great a part in the promising political\nagreements just concluded in China.\nSince, unfortunately, Generalissimo Chiang made similar\npledges in the past, only to follow them by greater censorship,\nmore violent suppression of differing political thought, and a\nstrengthening of the reactionary landed oligarchy which surrounds\nhim, it is necessary that our Government continue manifesting its\nfirm interest in the successful completion of the present welcome\nagreement.\nFor that reason, and after considerable reflection upon\nsome of the disturbing implications of your January 12 letter to\nme, I am again imposing upon your busy day.\nIt is true, as your letter stated, that we have agreed to\ndisarm and evacuate Japanese troops in China.\nBut the point I was raising in my previous letter to you\nis that responsible press correspondents (I cited Lieberman of the\nNew York Times), enlisted men and officers, and others who have re-\ncently returned from China all agree that armed Japs are being\nused as part of the armed forces of the Chungking government, are\nguarding the same lines and installations as our own Marines are\nguarding, and have been taking part in actions against the North\nChina forces which, until lately, were fighting the Generalissimo's\ntroops.\nCANTONAL\nRECORDS\nIt is little wonder that people have been asking what our\nis - SERVICE*\ntroops are doing in China. We have disarmed some Japs, but that\nexplanation does not satisfy people's minds when we have, under\nbut recently existing conditions of civil war, also taken key cities\nfrom Communist-led forces, turned them over to Chiang's troops, and\ntransported his troops up into Manchuria, where the Russians long\nago disarmed the Japs."
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