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    "ocrText": "-32-\nARCHIVES \"NATIONAL SERVICE' RECORDS ANO A\nthings that the Nationalist Government is finished for\nthe foreseeable future and please - so their throats\nwon't be cut - don't send any more money over there for\nthe central government, such as the $12 million two or\nthree months ago, that was sent over for military supplies.\nMR. MacNAUGHTON: Doesn't that maintain my point that\nat the present they are washed up?\nMR. MURPHY: If that meant we had the capability of\nusing China narrowly as an instrument of our own foreign\npolicy.\nMR. KIZER: Mr. Chairman, in the sense that Mr.\nMacNaughton used the word, I agree with him heartily that\nwe are washed up in China. I take it that Mr. MacNaughton\nmeant that the policy of pouring lavishly arms and\nsupport in the hands of the Generalissin has been demon-\nstrated to be a complete failure, that we ought to think\nour policy out in new terms. As to Dr. Colegrove's\nsuggestion that there are healthy sources of resistance,\nI suggest that they only appear healthy in areas where\nthey have not yet been effectively challenged by the Com-\nmunist group. Under the Nationalist Government, as far\nas I know, there are no healthy sources of resistance,\nparticularly once the Communists have made such a display\nof military force as they have made.\nWhenever those are approached I believe they will do\njust what the others have done, they will surrender. And\nI think: we ought not to rely upon it. Anyone, it seems to\nme, who has read the report of Major General Barr and the\nJUSMAG group in the White Paper, anyone who has read the\nreport of General Wedemeyer on what Chung Hsi did in\nFormosa must, I think, come to the conclusion that the\nuse of military force- or assistance by us to resisting\ngroups in China is a tragic mistake, that the quicker we\ndrop it and move to other resources we have in our hands\nthe better off we will be. l'e have succeeded to a large\ndegree in Europe because of the effectiveness of the\nMarshall Plan and the use of economic and social forces.\nWe couldn't use those in China because such as we sent\nover under UNRRA and under our assistance simply were\nused as instruments of war by the Generalissimo. We\nhaven' done anything in that sense for China except on\na very small scale.\nI'm"
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