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    "ocrText": "598\n18\n-2-\nparts. These trucks are ordinary trucks which, as you know.\nare in short supply. At the meeting at the time there was an\nacrimonious discussion about the abvious foolishness of\nsending trucks to Indie to be immobilized at a time when\ntrucks generally were in an acute shortage. It was the view\nof the Committee that no further shipments of that sort\nshould be made.\nThe Canadians at the meeting last Monday brought forward\nfor clearance with the Committee a list of the military\nequipment to comprise the second shipment of Chinese\nmaterial to India; this shipment will complete the 12,500\nton stock pile. You will note that this list includes\n375 three-ton trucks. When Bill Batt/aaw that item he\nhit the ceiling and we went over much the same ground which\nwe traversed two months ago. The Canadians referred to\nthe Department of State's memorandum of May 15 in which it\nwas stated that the Chinese have requested that General\nStilwell take custody of Canadian material shipped under\nmutual aid and they added that in these circumstances they\nassumed that General Stilwell would be able to make effective\nuse of any Canadian war material shipped to India pending\nthe time that it could be transported to China. Lauchlin\nCurrie said that this was not the case and that the net\neffect of the Chinese request that Stilwell take custody of\nthe Canadian material was that he would have charge of ware-\nhousing it without the right to use it unless the Chinese\nGovernment gave special permiesion. He pointed out that\nsince the title to the material furnished to China by Canada\npassed to the Chinese Government when the goods were actually\nshipped from Canada, this material was in exactly the same\nposition as the American purchase supplied to China prior to\nMay 1942, and that we were still arguing with the Chinese\nGovernment about the right to use this material.\nSERVICE** RECORDS 1\nMike Pearson Vquoted the whole sentence from our\nmemorandum referring especially to the phrase \"and to assure\nthe most effective use of war material destined for China\"\nand said that he assumed that this meant that General Stilwell\ncould actually use Canadian material without special\npermission from the Chinese. Lauchlin Currie insisted that\nthat was not the case but that the situation was as he had\ndescribed it and that all General Stilwell could do would be to\naccept custody for the goods which were controlled exclusively\nby the Chinese authorities. I: was unfortunately not in a\nposition\nWilliam L. Batt, Chairman, U. S. Section, Joint War\nProduction Committee, United States and Canada\nL. B. Pearson, Canadian Minister in the United States."
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