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...have put Chiang's key armies in the ring with U.S. weapons which use U.S. ammunition. The supply of ammunition is not inexhaustible. To make their handsome weapons work, we must continue to supply the U.S. ammunition. Otherwise we take the responsibility for stranding them without ammunition and letting the Communists mow them down, with weapons taken from the Japanese...
...came direct to Peiping. He talked earnestly with top U.S. officers in China, reportedly advised Washington to withdraw U.S. marines gradually (in about three months). But some Americans in China would risk a stronger U.S. policy and go all-out to insure China's peace by supporting Chiang's Government, imperfect...
...from Peiping flew a bevy of crack Central Government troubleshooters. One of them was affable General Tu Liming, Chungking's military commander for the Northeast. Another was Russian-speaking Chiang Ching-kuo, Chiang Kai-shek's elder son, who has a Russian wife and used to be at odds with his father, but is now one of the National Government's up-&-coming younger men and the Foreign Affairs Commissioner for the Northeast. A third was liberal Chang Kia-ngau, a Shanghai banker and ex-Minister of Communications, who has become one of the Generalissimo...
When Generalissimo Chiang's troops arrived off Yingkow they found a Chinese Communist garrison. U.S. Vice Admiral Daniel E. Barbey, in charge of the transports, and General Tu promptly conferred with the Russians to arrange the transfer or neutralization of the Communists...
...effect, the "small war" was a Clausewitzian extension of the political talks begun in August by Communist Chairman Mao Tse-tung and Generalissimo Chiang's negotiators, and recessed last month. The suspended but by no means abandoned negotiations and the military maneuverings were inextricably intermixed. The more either side could gain in the field, the less would be left to negotiation. The more they finally settled by negotiation, the less they would have to fight about...