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DECLASSIFIED
E.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or
SECRET
Dept. of State letter, Aug. 10. 1972
BY VLTHC NARS Date 7-21-75
Central Government troops, the Communists will take over.
They further state that it is impossible for the Chinese troops
to enter the Tsientsin, Peiping area until at least ten boats
of appropriate size are given them to transport the troops to
North China to replace the Marines.
The Manchuria situation is quite disturbing to me,
first, from the standpoint of its relationship regarding the
Communists versus the Central Government; second, the Com-
munists forces will be greatly entrenched by controlling Man-
churia with all of its vast natural resources; third, the
acquisition of Japanese arms; fourth, raw materials and semi
finished products from Manchuria have a direct relationship
to reparations and removals of industrial equipment from Japan.
During pre-war and war periods an increasing percentage
of Manchuria's exports went to Japan, and certain branches of
Japan's industry were overdeveloped by consumption of these
exports. In value the percentage of Manchuria's total exports
going to Japan was 49%. Eight percent in 1937; 57.5% in 1938;
and 62.4% in 1939.
Leading exports to Japan included iron ore, pig iron,
anthracite coal, some rolled steel. Excess Japanese heavy
industry, such as blast and steel making furnaces, rolling
mills, fabrication equipment, machine tools and small amounts
of smelting and refining equipment for copper, zinc and lead,
heretofore dependent on Manchurian resources, will be available
for immediate removal from Japan.
SECRET
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