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CONT -30- ARCHIVES SERVICE^ NATIONAL RECORDS AND : Mohammedan provinces -- and we know how Mohammedan countries look at Communism. It seems to me that General Pai Chung, who still is loyal to the Netionalist Govern- ment, is one healthy source still remaining which deserves the assistance of the United States. I take the position, also, of course that General Chiang still deserves our support. We have, of course, General Chennault's plan whereby he thinks that he could save a large part of China with the expenditure of not more than 0200 million, following tactics which he used during the world war. I won't agree at all that we are washed up in China. There are healthy spots which ill still resist the Chinese Communists and which deserve our attention. Of course, my assumption is that our policy in China should be the same sort of policy as in Europe, viz., to resist totalitarian regimes which carry on aggressions very nuch like the aggressions which Hitler carried on at the beginning of the world war. MR. DECKER: I would agree that we are by no means washed up in China. I thin's it's very important for us to keep that constantly in mind. I do so, however, for a different set of reasons than those I believe lir. Colegrove advanced. I think there is no doubt whatever but that the leadership, the present political leadership, of the present regime in China is Communist and certainly for the time being at least is thoroughly committed to a Russian line. I think it would be very foolish if we were to assume anything else. But it's yet to be seen how effective that group is going to make that control of China itself. Those of us who went through the Revolution of 1925 to 32 or 128 know how quickly these enthusiasms can spread in China and how quickly disillusionment can follow. And I do not think it is wishful thinking to point out that the Communist Party has got to navigate the same waters that wrecked the Kuomintang and if we have got to look any further than the end of our noses I'm very sure that we ought not to assume here that it is going to be able to make China as a whole an effective cat's paw of Russian policy or that it is going to be able to set up and to maintain a stable effective govern- ment over the continent of China. Then there is another thing. Experience in one of these revolutions has taught us how quickly an anti- American or anti-foreign or anti-everything else kind of a movement

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