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    "ocrText": "TOP SECRET\nC-6\nDirector, Office of Far Eastern Affairs, to reoord\nthat the Department of State was not informed of\nthe commitments, military or otherwise, that had\nbeen made at the Cairo Conference.\n1\n8. Military Aid to China\nIn the absence of minutes of the President's\nconversations with Generalissimo Chiang at Cairo it\nis difficult to say with certainty what commitment\nthe President made with regard to equipping Chinese\nforces. From the available evidence it appears\nthat the President made some sort of a commitment\nto equip ninety Chinese divisions,\nAt the 130th Meeting of the Joint. Chiefs of\nStaff on November 25, 1943 General Marshall reported\nthat the \"President had already been spoken to about\nthe arming of the third group of Chinese divisions\" .\n(Each group consisted of thirty divisions. ) General\nMarshall stated that the President \"had postponed\nany definite commitment in this connection although\nhe had made it clear that the United States intends\neventually to provide the equipment for this group\n(Doc. F, p.c-31) In a memorandum for the Chief\nof Staff, dated December 31, 1943, Major General\nGeneral Thomas T. Handy, Assistant Chief of Staff,\nwrote: \"The commitment regarding the Lend-Lease\nequipping of Chinese Divisions the President actually\nmade at Sextant is not known. We are proceeding on\nthe assumption that the President' maide no commitment\nMemorandum by Mr. Hornbeck, Jan. 18, 1944,\nfile FW 893.51/7732. (Not reproduced.)\n2 In his first conversation with Marshal Stalin\nat Tehran on November 28, 1943, however, President\nRoosevelt informed the Marshal that 'we are now\nsupplying and training 30 Chinese divisions for\noperations in Southern China and were proposing to\ncontinue the same process for 30 additional divisions\".\nSee Tehran Conference, p. D-16.\nnsolvomA)\nJok)\ne\nCEUH\nos"
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