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    "ocrText": "651\nPREPARING opmes\nWREL INDICATE\nTELEGRAM SENT\nPREPARING OFFICE WILL\nTYPE HERE CLEARLY THE\nCollect\n185\nOF THE\nDepartment of date\nMESSAGE:\nCharge Departments\nWashington\nCharge to\nB. The problem is the extent to which it is\npossible and appropriate to offset against any U.S. dollar\nobligation to pay for Yuan advances and expenditures the\nvalue of assistance furnished to China through lend lease,\nsale of surplus property, extension of credits, etc. The\ngeneral objective of the Government in this connection is\ncontained in recent policy statement of National Advisory\nCouncil which reads: \"When General Marshall deems negotiations\ndesirable, the U.S. will negotiate with China simultaneously\non war settlements, including settlement of U.S. Army and\nNavy obligations to China, the sale of U.S. surplus property\nin China, and the settlement of lend-lease. The U.S. negotiators\nshall be guided in such negotiations by the principle that the\nChinese Government should agree to offset Chinese obligations\non account of lend-lease and the purchase of surplus property\nagainst the U.S. Army and Navy obligations.'\n3. Lend-Lease pipeline in United States.\nA. This point covers pipeline of supplies in U.S.\ncontracted for but not transferred before V-J Day. Pipeline\nis valued at $62 million of which transportation equipment\nis $33 million, textiles $7 million, miscellaneous $10 million,\nfreight and services $12-1/2 million. It is estimated that\n$20 million of these supplies have been shipped and that balance\n2\nDated January 8, 1946.\nDECLASSIFIED\nE.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E)\nOSD letter, May 3, 1972\nBYNLTIK NARS Date 6.25.75"
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