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    "ocrText": "UNCLASSIFIED\nU\nC-73\nDOCUMENT T\nEXTRACT\nMemorandum, by John Carter Vincent, of Conversation Between\nVice President Henry .A. Wallace and President Chiang Kai-shek,\nChungking, June 22, 1944, 4:30 p.m.\n1\nPresident Chiang then described what he considered\nto be basic in the present unfortunate military situa-\ntion in China. He said that the Chinese people have\nfought for seven years under conditions of great hard- -\nship, and that they had expected help from abroad; that\nthey had expected an all-out - Burma campaign early this\nyear and this would have resulted in bringing relief\nto the Chinese Army and that failure to initiate\nan all-out - Burma campaign had had a decidedly adverse\neffect on Chinese morale. The Chinese people felt\nthat they had been deserted. President Chiang then\nreferred to his conversations with President Roosevelt\nat Cairo. He said that President Roosevelt had promised\nan all-out campaign in Burma early in 1944 but that\nat Tehran President Roosevelt had reversed his decision,\nindicating that the necessary amphibious landing craft\nwould not be available for such a campaign. President\nChiang said that this reversal of decision had had a\nvery unfortunate. reaction in China. He referred to his\nconversation with President Roosevelt, at which time\nhe had told President Roosevelt that, unless very early\naction were taken to open up Burma he could not count\nupon a continuance of effective Chinese resistance to\nthe Japanese. Recent developments had proven him\ncorrect in his estimate. Mr. Wallace said that he\nrecalled having a conversation with President Roosevelt,\neither personally or in a Cabinet meeting, regarding\nthis matter but that he did not recall the details.\nHe asked Mr. Vincent regarding the matter but Mr.\nVincent said he did not have any. detailed information\nconcerning the Cairo conversations.\nlunited States Relations with China, With Special\nReference to the Period 1944-1949 (Department of State\nPublication 3573; August 1949T, p. 551.\nUNCLASSIFIED"
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