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ARGONAUT CONFERENCE¹
Minutes of 1st Plenary Meeting between the U.S.A. and Great
Britain, Held in the President's Cabin on Board the "USS Quincy".
Malta, on Friday, 2 February 1945, at 1800
THE MEETING had under consideration an interim
report to the President and the Prime Minister by the
Combined Chiefs of Staff (C.C.S. 776/1)²
THE PRIME MINISTER inquired whether the President
had not been somewhat disappointed at the results
achieved by the Chinese, having regard to the tremen-
dous American efforts which had been made to give them
support.
THE PRESIDENT said that three generations of
education and training would be required before China
could become a serious factor.
GENERAL MARSHALL pointed out that the picture in
China was now considerably changed. In the first
place certain well-trained Chinese troops were now
in China, having been transferred there from Burma.
Secondly, the opening of the Burma Road had meant
that the first artillery for the Chinese Army had
been able to go through. Thirdly, if operations in
Burma continued to go well, additional trained
Chinese troops could move back to China, and it was
hoped that an effective reinforced Chinese corps
would soon be in existence.
1
ARGONAUT CONFERENCE, January-February 1945,
Papers and Minutes of Meetings, Argonaut Conference,
Edited and Published by the Office, U.S. Secretary
of the Combined Chiefs of Staff, 1945, pp. 288, 292,
294.
?see Document F, Attachment 1, p. E-29.
DECLASSIFIED
Be O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or
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Dept. of State letter, 17-65-075
BEZ DUL HC NARS 7-2677
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