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    "title": "Letter from General George C. Marshall to President Harry S. Truman, with Related Note",
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    "ocrText": "WAR DEPARTMENT\nOFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF STAFF\nWASHINGTON 25, D.C.\nGOLD-1628\nOctober 10, 1946\nDear Mr. President:\nThe following is a public statement by General Marshall and the\nUnited States Ambassador Doctor Stuart dated October 8 referred to in\nGOLD-1627:\nOn the Morning of October first General Marshall received through\nthe hands of Mister Wang Ping-Nan, the Communist representative, a\nmemorandum dated September thirtieth from General Chou En-Lai in\nShanghai relating the activities of the Kuomintang party to which\nobjection was taken and concluding with the following paragraph:\n\"Now I am duly instructed to serve the following notice, which\nI request you would kindly transmit to the Government: If the\nKuomintang Government does not instantly cease its military operations\nagainst Kalgan and the vicinity areas, the Chinese Communist Party\nfeels itself forced to presume that the Government is thereby giving\npublic announcement of a total National split, and that it has\nultimately abandoned its pronounced policy of peaceful settlement.\nWhen reaching such a stage, the responsibility of all the serious\nconsequences should as a matter of course solely rest with the Govern-\nment side.\"\nIn accordance with the request of General Chou the foregoing\nmemorandum was transmitted to the Generalissimo, and on October second\nhe replied in a memorandum to General Marshall relating certain hostile\nacts of troops of the Communist Party. In this memorandum the General-\nissimo proposed, with a view to saving time and as indicating the\nsincerity of the Government, the following as the maximum concessions\nthe Government would make in the solution of the present problem:\n\"1. The Chinese Communist Party has been incessantly urging the\nreorganization of the National Government. This hinges on the distri-\nbution of the membership of the State Council. The Government originally\nagreed that the Chinese Communist Party be allocated eight seats and the\nDemocratic League, four, with a total of twelve. The Chinese Communist\nParty, on the other hand, requested ten for themselves and four for the\nDemocratic League with a total of fourteen. Now the Government makes a\nfresh concession by taking the mean and offering one seat for the\nindependents to be recommended by the Chinese Communist Party and agreed\nupon by the Government, so that, added to the original twelve, it makes a\n- 1 -"
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