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    "ocrText": "DELEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA\nApril 27, 1951\nDear Mr. President:\nI am enclosing this copy of a letter which I\nwrote to General Marshall for your information. I have\nalready sent you a copy of the report of my conversation\nTRUMAN\nin London.\nAMOUNT\n\"NATIONAL\nARCHIVES AND\nRECORDS\nLIMBERY\nVery cordially yours,\n0.5.\nSERVICE\"\n$\nThereor GOVERNMENT\nresell3, therefood\nsce 729\nApril 27, 1951\nHARRY U.S. ARCHIVES s. GOVERNMENT SERVICE\" RECORDS NATIONAL TRUMAN AND LIBRARY\nDear General Marshall:\nThe other night at dinner, I had a talk with the head of the Inter-\nnational Red Cross, Dr. Ruegger. He said many fine things about\nhis devotion to you. The Consulate here has had some difficulties\nin getting any answers from him as regards prisoners of war in\nKorea. He murmured to me, when I asked him about these dif-\nficulties that there was no difficulty on top levels between the\nUnited States and the International Red Cross and you and he\nhad always been friends. He said he had sent many inquiries\nbut had been unable to get any answers and I imagine he was\nirritated at being asked when he could not get any answers, so\nperhaps this little difficulty will soon blow over.\nI did want to tell you that I asked him about the trip from which\nhe has just returned. He went to Peking with his wife. He says\nthat Madame Sun Yat Sen is active in the government, that he saw\nsome other people who were working and had a long talk with\nChou-en-lei. He says he does not think he is a communist, certainly\nnot a communist in the Russian sense. Dr. Ruegger seems to think\nthat the reforms are genuine and that they ere actually trying to\nget a clean government, free of graft. Chou said nothing which\nWestern Europe could resent and I thought he felt that with proper\nhandling something might be done to straighten out the present\ndifficulties between China and the outside world.\nI am enclosing to you a report of a conversation which I had in London\nand which might give you a side light on a certain type of British\nthinking. My conversation with Dr. Ruegger coming on top of it\nseems to confirm some of the things said and make it advisable for\nus, by hook or by crook to find out whether a United Nations advance\nwould get any consideration in Peking.\nDr. Ruegger said he had just had a letter from the Chinese Ambassador\nwhom he had seen over there. He thinks that is the only link with\nthe outside world and that link should not be broken. He also felt\nhe was feeling his importance somewhat.\nHe has admiration for Nehru but he felt Nehru has not stood on\nthe right side very often of late and I thinks it is because Nehru\nwas appalled at the thought of having China as an enemy.\nI know we can not appease and I am not suggesting any action,\nbecause I do not know enough but I felt these two observations\nmight be of some help to you and to the efforts made by the\nUnited Nations if there is a chance that there may be Chinese\nofficials who are not communists. Some of the efforts being\nmade for peace might have a hearing.\nVery sincerely yours,"
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