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7/23/53 - Wire 1 - P. 1 Q. Bundy said he would be a little late. Q. Oh, yes, that's right. DA. Yesterday we were speculating as to whether in mid 149 the criticisms of the Marshall step to further the agreement between the Nationalists and the Communts had been a subject weal of criticism and I find among my press clippings here an editorial in the Common Wesel on August 19, 1949. it says "Why, for example, did we dee eive ourselves by promoting a coalition between the Nationalists and the Communists, why did we not exert more pressure on China to clean up his Governm ent as a pre-condition of the American aid, why did we not sooner and more vigorously protest Russian violation on the Yalta agreement regarding ? Manchuria? These questions indicate sone American wrong thinking and ignorance burrows going on in China will take more than this white paper to certify that our mistakes too were not comparable blunders." There are two interesting things about that; one of them is that they do pick up. they were talking about, and that the Yalta that is referred to here is a rather good thing rather than a bad thing. It's Russian violations of the Yalta which commonweal. is exciting to the Gommon Wheel. weal Q. Sir, if we could probably observe that the Common Whoel wasn't typical of the attacks that later came, I mean t he Common Wheel has been sort of a little apart from the DA. That is right. This particular point had not emerged but it was beginning to, the Common Wheel quite rightly had nuch more restrain, was sensible and fir. Getting on into November we still were in the middle of a very bitter controversy with the Chinese Com- munists over Angus Ward. It was August 30th that we got the twolve other countries to join with us in the demand on the Communists to release him. Q. This is 949. I DA. This is 149, and he was not released until December 16th, as I look back on it the battle which was going on... TRUMAN Q. You said August, did you moan November? -NATIONAL ADMIN of RECORDS DA. Did I say August? Q. November 149, you said. Q. It was in November that wo got the other governments to join.