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military point of view, from the financial point of view
and the moral point of view, to assist ourselves in
achieving the objectives I have described. Now, the
first step necessary to accomplish that was to get this
Japanese army out without creating civil war. We have
done that very largely. There are only a few thousand
left. Of course, the Chinese are still a long way from
being able to pick up again where they left off as a
result of the Japanese aggression of '31. For years,
China has been fought over. There are vast areas which
have no governmental authority working in any sense that
the Chinese knew it before and we knew it before, so there
must be continuing help. That is what General Marshall
tried to do, to bring about a political settlement, to
bring about a unification of the Army, to keep the rail
lines open so that the people in the great cities would
TRENAN
not be thrown into unemployment, hunger and starvation
ARCHIVES RECORDS NATIONAL AND
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SERVICE*
s
which no element of the Chinese Government could deal
with now. We have no desire to stay in China one second
longer than the Chinese Government wants us to stay there.
On December 15 I said: "The Government of the United
States believes it is essential (1) That a cessation of
hostilities
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