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...Recognize that the U.S. is already at war with Communist China, but avoid open conflict with China. Give Chiang Kai-shek the arms and other help he needs to carry the fight to the Chinese Reds on the mainland...
...those years dramatically illustrated the way that attitude worked. In 1945 George Marshall was getting ready to depart on his special mission to Chungking. He awaited the President's instructions, and the War Department submitted a draft of what it would advise. The War Department would promise Chiang Kai-shek U.S. support in establishing the Nationalist government's authority over all of China and Manchuria; it wanted the U.S. to use every means to get the Nationalists north of the Yellow River. Purpose: to let them, instead of the Chinese Communists, take the territories abandoned by the defeated...
Around the State Department, the old animus against Chiang Kai-shek still persists, for Chiang is the symbol of a mistake, hanging like the ancient mariner's albatross around the U.S. neck. The U.S. had shrunk from any embroilment in Asia. The Korean intervention was not actually Asiatic policy but a 180° turn from it; it was carried out to make a moral point. As a matter of basic policy, the U.S. had determined, as it did in World War II, that the place it would much prefer to fight, if it has to fight, is in Europe...
China, gambling on U.S. confusion on the war issue and relying on Washington's refusal to let Chiang Kai-shek strike from Formosa, had sent into the Korean war the vast majority of the well-trained Chinese Communist armies. If U.S. leaders realized they were in a war, they would also realize that China's flank was wide open and the supply line of the Chinese fighting armies was highly vulnerable to air and sea attack...
Though Bishop Tu is also commander in chief of the private army of Phat Diem and Bui Chu, operational control is in the hands of dapper Ngo Cao Tung, who looks ten years younger than his 40 years, claims to have served as a major on Chiang Kai-shek's staff and as military counselor to the Nationalist commander in chief in South China. He arrived in Phat Diem last May. Under him are two regular battalions of 1,700 men, known as Groupe Mobile Autonome. His uniform, a strange mixture of his own and the bishop...