Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chinese reaction to the plan to temporize with Japan was prompt and bitter. Owen Lattimore, U.S. political adviser to Chiang Kaishek, cabled: "I have never seen the Generalissimo really agitated before. . . . [This] would dangerously increase Japan's military advantage in China. . . . The Generalissimo questions his ability to hold the situation together if the Chinese national trust in America is undermined...
From London Churchill cabled with typical British understatement: "What about Chiang Kaishek? Is he not having a very thin diet? ... If [the Chinese] collapse our joint dangers would enormously increase...
...Government the hour of decision in China rapidly approached. The issue: should the U.S. openly and forcefully support the Government of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in its fight against the Chinese Communists? If not, how else could the traditional U.S. policy of a free, united and democratic China be maintained...
...Chiang's troops could take Manchuria without U.S. help, Washington had no problem. But Washington knew how desperately Chiang's armies needed equipment, how lack of transport virtually immobilized his main forces. The U.S. would not be content to see enemies of the Chinese Government acquire Manchuria, which can produce far more arms than all the rest of China. Control of Manchuria by Chinese Communists would constitute a major power shift in the Far East...
...issue came to a head when Generalissimo Chiang asked the U.S. to fly another Chinese army to the North. The decision was put up to Washington's powerful "Committee of Three," the heads of the State, War and Navy Departments...