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CORE - 128 - MR . DECKER: I don't beliove it is entirely naive or a piece of idealis to dratw a distinction at times between the Chinese people and the Chinese government. I do believe that thet distinction is a valid one. I see the Chinese people as still cherish ing down in the bottom of their hearts, nost of them, a very high regard for the United States. They have been caught in a maelstrom of tragio circumstances and they have been faced with impossible dilemmas, and had we been faced with the dilemnas in the same terms and with the same influence which they had, I am not at all certain that our decisions would not have been the seme a.s theirs. Now I know how difficult 1t is to sup- port the Chinese people or to assist the Chinesé people without in indirect ways assisting the Communist govern- ment, but I do believe that we can leave time and the undoubted difficulties that the Communist regime will meet in China to deal largely with that question. And so I hope very much that not only in the realm of private trade but in the realm of private relief or reeonstruetion work that may be undertaken by private agencies in China that the door will be left open. Now, mind you, I am not optimistic about the immediate prospects for being able to extend a large measure of that sort of aid or rolier to the Chinese. For one thing, we have got to justify it with the American people, and the American people simply will not furnish that relief 19 1t has to be furnished on unreasonable terms. But let's not in our policy in any way close the door for that effort. CHAIRMAN: Ve want to give you a picture of what the overseas information policy toward the Far East has been and is because we need your advice and counsel ARCHIVES RECORDS 'NATIONAL AND on this. Mr. Sargeant will present the briefing. : SERVICE* IRR. SARGLANT: Our immediate objective in the pro- grem of the United States Information and Educational Exchange Service are of two kinds. First, we are attempting to aline public opânion throughout the world on the side of the United States and it has two aspects to it: a positivo side, in which we are trying to demonstrate that US policies are in effect to the self interest of other nations and other peoples; it is to their advantage to support these policies. I think there is a negative side. I think that is the demonstration of what the USSR and specifically those aspects of Communism

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