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by and large. pro-Russian in its anti-Americanism, then
there is E much more favorable basis for returning it to
some kind of friendly attitude toward the United States
than if, let' aay, its anti-Americanism were identical
with a pro-Soviet approach.
I might add as a footnote that I think in a country
of 450 million people such as China, in which only a
small percentage of the population, even the politically
conscious, have a clear-cut, fixed ideology, that this
question of how people feel on grounda of personal reac-
tion to the policy of a foreign power, in this case the
United States, is very important. 1, personally, as I
have suggested, would be in favor of recognizing at the
earliest feasible moment. I thinic, though, that in terms
of preparing American public opinion for recognition,
there is a process of disentanglement from the Chinese
Nationalists which can be carried out in the weeks ahead,
and I think to the extent that we disentangle ourgelves
from the Chinese Nationalists, we lay the basis for
recognition. As a matter of fact, if we were to recog-
nize today, assuming that were possible, we would be in
a highly contradictor7 situation of recognizing at the
time that we were delivering, through ECA, supplies to
Formosa, and 80 on. We have not yet cleared ourselves
from the entanglement with the Nationalists. I'd like
to suggest, although I am riot informed on the technical
problems of carrying out some of these actions, that we
end our ECA assistance as soon as possible to the rem-
nants or the Chinese Nationalists. I'd like to suggest
that one important question would be the position we
take at the United Nations in connection with the reso-
lutions or the proposals of the Chinese Nationalists.
I think to the extent that we associate ourselves at
the United Nations with their position, we make it very
difficult to move toward recognition. I would be in
Iavor of keeping ourselves 8.3 clear as possible from
association with the Chinese Nationalist position at the
United Nations. I think the question of the blockade is
extremely important. I was particularly interested in
the phrose from the letter of Mr. Hopkins, just read by
Mr. Robertson, to the effect that we should actively
break the blockade. Regardless of the phrase that is
= SERVICE!
used, I think it 1s rather obvious that the blockade
could not continue if the United States and Britain
took an active position against it. The blockade, let's
say, arose independently of our will, but its continuance
is dependent on the assumption of a certain position of
acquiescence on our part.
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