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CHINESE EMBASSY
W ASHINGTON
November 9, 1948
No. 212
Dear Mr. President:
I
have the honor to transmit to you the following message,
which I have just received from President Chiang Kai-shek:
**I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of
ARCHIVES "NATIONAL AND
Your Excellency's reply dated October 16, 1948, for which
RECORDE
I am deeply grateful.
The Communist forces in Central China are now
within striking distance of Shanghai and Nanking. If we fail
to stem the tide, China may be lost to the cause of democracy.
I am therefore compelled to send to Your Excellency again
a direct and urgent appeal.
The general deterioration of the military situation
in China may be attributed to a number of factors. But the
most fundamental is the non-observance by the Soviet
Government of the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and
Alliance, which, as Your Excellency will doubtless recall,
the Chinese Government signed as a result of the well-
intentioned advice from the United States Government.
I
need hardly point out that, but for persistent Soviet aid, the
Chinese Communists would not have been able to occupy
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