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DERARTMENT OF
STATE
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APR8 - 194ADVISER ON POLITICAL RELATIONS
April 3, 1943.
MUNICATIONS ANU
j
There has been growing in my mind for several weeks
past a sense of a possibility that long before the time at
which, proceeding according to the strategy which has been
adopted of defeating Germany first and then dealing with
the Japanese, the time will have arrived for the United
Nations to attack Japan from points in China, we will
find that, in regard to our expectation of using air fields
in China, especially fields near the coast, for that
attack, we have "missed the boat'. I am not sure that
such a situation has not already developed.
3.11.
There come to our attention increasing indications
that the Chinese have lost or are losing interest in the
idea of further sacrificing on their part toward effecting
defeat of Japan. The process of *conciliation and
pacification in the occupied areas is proceeding steadily.
Trade, directly or indirectly encouraged by the Japanese,
between the occupied and the unoccupied areas is increasing.
Japaneee pressure upon officialdom at Chungking through
pressure upon Chinese in Japanese hands seems to be having
an effect. Nationalist sentiment, various prejudices,
some real and some fancied grievances, some suspicions and
some apprehensions--toward and in regard to some of China's
allies in the United Natione group tend to create an apathy
among officials at Chungking in regard to the subject of
offensive military operations against Japan, in view, first,
of the fact that the Japanese are no longer preseing them
and are given to striking only when struck, and, second,
that the United States and Great Britain have declared
that they intend to consummate an utter defeat of Japan.
Under these circumstances, it is by no means certain
that at a time when, say, nine months or twelve months or
eighteen monthe from now, we might wish to use Chinese air
fields for direct offensives against Japan we will find
those air fields available.
There is only one way in which we can effectively
oppose, offset and counter the policy which Japan is now
sirth
following in China and the present trend of Chinese though
with regard to the war: the one and only potentially et -
fective measure that we (and the British) have available
to us for that purpose lies in the realm of increasing the
delivery of materials of ar--specifically, planes, guns,
trucke, miscellaneous munitions, medicines--and, along with
these,
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3193
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