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Treaty of Friendship. While Chiang grappled with "open rebellion," his brother-in-law, Premier T. V. Soong, hurried from the Kremlin to the White House. On & off since early July, he had been talking in Moscow with Generalissimo Joseph Stalin and Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov. In his pocket Premier Soong carried a signed treaty of friendship and alliance between Russia and China...
...Premier Soong, according to Paris, asked that Russia recognize the Chungking Government as the sole government of China; that Russia stop all deliveries of arms to the Chinese Communists and prevent Japanese arms from falling into their hands; that Russia must not support the Chinese Communist request for Generalissimo Chiang's removal...
Stalin and Molotov argued that the Chinese Communists were a Chinese internal affair and that Russia could not be responsible for Yenan. But they would "use their influence" to help avert civil war. Stalin and Molotov believed that Chiang's retirement would help to pacify China...
With Soong delicately avoiding the Chiang issue, the treaty of friendship and alliance was finally signed...
...Washington, where Premier Soong conferred with President Truman and Secretary of State Byrnes, there was widespread feeling that China was dissatisfied with the Russian pact. This was by no means certain. For Premier Soong's treaty had won for Chiang Kai-shek a breathing spell in which China's Government could strengthen itself. How successful the breathing spell would prove depended in part on how much support-economic, financial and diplomatic-China would get from...