Evening star., 1951-05-13

nis picture and out of the way.
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that sort, which I cannot quote
Ioffhand. ;.
Senator Cain DO you, Gen.
Marshall, out of your wide expert
Ience, see any difference between
Russian, Chinese and American
Communists?
Gen. Marshall-My own reac-
ton is that the Chinese Com
munist leadership is identical with
the Soviet Communists, and these
groups in America, as far as I OBJ
tain from the press. and what ]
got while I was Secretary of State
have the same objectives and en-
Iploy different means, according
to the circumstances.
Senator Cain-Are those objec-
tives the total destruction Of free
institutions and control of them
on the face of the earth?
Gen. Marshall-I am not quite
so certain as to that, but ! do feel
absolutely certain it is the COM
Iplete domination
Senator Cain-Of the world?
Gen. Marshall-Of the world.
Senator Cain - Gen. Marshall
would you explain to the commit
tee what you had in mind in June
Iof l946 when you strongly urged
the passage of HR6795, which was
designed to amalgamate the Chi
Inese Communists and lsationalist
army ...
Gen. Marshall-What was the
bill?
Senator Cain-The bill. sir. was
this: "A bill to provide military
advice and assistance to the Re-
public of China: to aid in the
undermining of its armed forces
for the fulfillment of obligations
which may devolve upon it."
Just what were we trying to
get at when we, in America, were
insisting that Communist and
Nationalist Chinese leadership be
Iamalgamated within the future
armies of China?
Demobilization Planned.
Gen. Marshall-Under the DO.
litical consultative conference rec
ommendation, which was agreed
to by all concerned, there was tc
be a rehabilitation of the Ma
Itionalist Army from some 400 di-
visions, more or less, to so, ano
on the Communist side, from q
million and a half troops to II
divisions-in other words, so di.
visions in all. ).
Now 1t was thought that with
the, setting up Of this military
mission of ours to the Nationals
Government in China that one o.
its subsidiary functions would be
to try to get this force of thu
Communists in such a shape thai
we could amalgamate the unit!
and demobilize the rest.
Roughly, at certain stage
which was about a year later thar
the initiation of the maneuver
there were to be two Nationals
divisions and one Communist di.
vision in certain armies, they cal
them-we call them Army Corp.
and in others there were to bt
the Communist divisions and ont
Nationalist division. That ANAL.
gamation would not have occurred
for about a year. >.
The whole thing, the whole pro.
cedure. was in accordance with
this agreed program between thu
Nationalist Government and thu
Communist regime as to the exact
procedure to be followed in reduc.
ing the troops.
Senator Cain-This bill which
did not become law, and which
was supported strongly by oul
Government, simply meant that ii
1946 there was no deep-seatee
recognition on our part that 70,
simply cannot mix Communist
and free leadership. We though
it was possible.
Is it fair to ask you, sir, that i
this proposition were PRESENT.,
before us, or was before us i'm.
mediately before the Korean con
f1ict that there would have beer
any desire on our part to encour
age an amalgamation of Nation
alist and Chinese Communis
armies in China?
1 Mediation Was Impossible.
4 Gen. Marshall - No, sir. w,
reached a point where-well, 70,
couldn't mediate; that is the rea
son I left. And later on we di,
away with our executive head
quarters there for the conduct O
cease fire procedure and aban
t6Onp6 anv effort oIooo floof li,-