Word: manchuria
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...Financial and military aid for China within the next 60 days; otherwise the Nanking Government might well lose Manchuria to the Chinese Communists (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...difficult to foresee that the Communists would at once proclaim the "independence" of a "People's Republic of Manchuria," or that this "republic" would soon be recognized by the "Independent People's Republic of Outer Mongolia," which is entirely controlled by the Soviet Government, and that the two "independent republics" would then enter into a mutual-assistance pact. And it is not difficult to imagine that the Chinese ambassador in Moscow would then be summoned by Molotov and politely reminded that the Soviet Union has a mutual-assistance pact with the "People's Republic of Outer Mongolia...
...urgent need of the government armies in Manchuria for ammunition and spare parts to use in their American arms and equipment is one which cannot be filled in a leisurely manner. It requires immediate action. President Truman should act at once as President Roosevelt acted after Dunkirk, when the British and French were desperately short of munitions. President Roosevelt then had certain stocks of the U.S. Army declared no longer essential for use by the Army. They could then legally be sold, and vast quantities were sold to Great Britain at approximately 10? on the dollar. We have hundreds...
...turn to the military side of the problem, remembering that it is absolutely essential that the President should release immediately certain stocks of munition and have them rushed. . . to the Government troops in Manchuria . . . or by next spring we shall find Manchuria a Soviet satellite...
According to the estimates of the ablest American and Chinese military men, to drive out of Manchuria the 350,000 Communists will require the training and equipment in the American manner of ten new divisions. Furthermore, an efficient service of supply from the point of origin of the supplies to the front is essential. . . . American military men can and should run the service of supply in Manchuria...