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...July William C. Bullitt was dispatched by LIFE to China to see if he could find a sensible answer to the Chinese puzzle. This week in LIFE, the former U.S. Ambassador to Russia publishes his proposed solutions. Even as his report goes to press, the disastrous war news from Manchuria tragically confirms Mr. Bullitt's analysis of that situation and his plea for U.S. aid to the Nationalist forces there. Because of the importance of the subject, the concreteness and urgency of Mr. Bullitt's conclusions, TIME herewith reprints excerpts from his report...
...Manchuria the situation is altogether different. Government troops hold most of South Manchuria, except Dairen and Port Arthur which are occupied by the troops of the Soviet Union. But Communist troops hold all the rest of Manchuria, except a long finger-shaped salient from Mukden to Kirin. This salient follows what was once the major railroad of Manchuria, passing through Szepingkai and Changchun. It is a railroad no longer. Communists have destroyed every bridge north of a point 30 miles to the south of Szepingkai. Most of the ties have been burned, and many of the rails twisted by placing...
...even for reconnaissance since we did not carry out our promise to put through the Eight and One Third Air Group program. By persuading the Chinese Government to adopt American equipment and then refusing ammunition, we have put these soldiers on the end of a very long limb. ... If Manchuria should be abandoned to the Communists or should fall into their hands by conquest, a course of events fatal to China would follow...
...People's Republic of Manchuria...
...There is solid agreement," reported TIME Correspondent Frederick Gruin last week, "that Chen has done a notable job of bucking morale and tightening defenses. The midsummer gloom which had Manchuria all but lost to Nationalist China has noticeably lightened...