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FAJT S. DICLASSIFIED by authority of NLT-149 ARCHIVES AND RECORDS 'NATIONAL JUNE WITH Corry / SERVICE" ENCBMLAMDCND FENFRXVYEUJ / FR.1945 P. 1125 GOVERNY ant Initials N. Date 8673 WRGN 180702 aug 45 NCA 4609 8-18-45 URGENT AND TOP SECRET FOR THE EYES ALONE OF THE SECRETATY OF STATE FROM HURLEY PARA DR SOONG WAS NOT IN GOOD STANDING WITDIHIS GOVERNMENT WHEN I ARRIVED IN CHINA X P FOUND VERY FEW CHINES E WHOLWERE WESTERN MINDED X DR SOONGS HARVARD EDUCATIONX HIS ELEVEN YEARS BANMENG EXPERIENCE IIMTHE UBITED STATES AND LONG OFICIAL SERVICE THERE HAS GIEN EEEEEEE HTS GUVEN HIM' AN INSIGHT TO THE AMERICAN SITUATION THAT IS UNSURPASSED BYFANY CHINE E I HAVR KNOWN XLON THE DARK DAYS WHEN THE COLLAPSE OF THE CHIEES E NATIONAL GOVERNMENT WAS FREELY PREDICOED X WHEN THE CHINESE RMIES WERE IN FULL RETREAT AND WHEN THERE WAS WHAT APPEARED TO BE AN UNBREAKABLE DEADLOCK BETWEEN THE GENERALUSSINO AND THE MERICAN HIGH COMMAND x I TURNED INSTINCTIVELY TO A CHINESE WHO OULD UNDERSTAND WHAT I WAS SAYING AND COULD MAKE THE GENERALIS SINOWUNDERSTAND x CONVERSELY HEWCOULD MAKE ME U DERSTANDI THE GGNIRALISSIMO X THIS IS A PRELUDE THAT WILL INDICATE MY CLOSE RELATIONS WITH DR SOONG x I NOW FEEL THAT I MUST ATTEMPTQBO ONVEY YO YOU THE GRESLNT ATTITUDE OF DR SOONG TOWARD THE UNITED STATES x PARA