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DOCUMENT J
Enclosure 2
(Continued)
was essential to prevent the collapse of this indus- -
trial area. Our Marines were withdrawn from this
duty last September. Other, units of our forces
were engaged in searching for the bodies or graves
of American soldiers who had died fighting the
Japanese in China. Still others were required to
guard United States installations and stores of
equipment, and to process these for return to this
country or sale as surplus property.
At peak strength a year ago we had some 113,000
soldiers, sailors, and marines in China. Today this
number is being reduced to less than 12,000, includ-
ing some 2,000 directly concerned with the opera-
tions of Executive Headquarters, and will be further
reduced to the number required to supply and secure
the American personnel of Executive Headquarters
and the air field and stores at Tsingtao.
Thus during the past year we have successfully
assisted in the repatriation of the Japanese and have
subsequéntly been able to bring most of our; own
treops home. We have afforded appropriate assist. -
ance in the reoccupation of the country from the
Japanese. We have undertaken some emergency measures
of economic assistance to prevent the collapse of
China's economy and have liquidated our own wartime
financial account with China.
It is a matter of deep regret that China has
not yet been able to achieve unity by peaceful
methods. Because he knows how serious the problem
is, and how important it is to reach a solution,
General Marshall has remained at his post even
though active negotiations have been broken off by
the Communist Party. We are ready to help China
as she moves toward peace and genuine democratic
government.
The views expressed a year ago by this Govern-
ment are valid today. The plan for political unifica-
tion agreed to last February is sound. The plan for
military unification of last February has been made
difficult of implementation by the progress of the
fighting since last April, but the general prin-
ciples involved are fundamentally sound.
UNGLASSIFIED,
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