Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-05-10

ing slowly but decisively," as he
said, to throwing over Chang
Kai-shek.
Gen. Marshall said that Mr..
baltimore was not in the State
Department when he was in
charge. He added that Mr.. Vim
lcent, who was in charge of Chi
nese affairs in the department.
had very definite views" regard
i ing the Nationalist regime, and
added:
But, I personally received no
impression while I was in the
State Department that they were
talking about an agrarian Com
munistic regime quite remote
from Marxist-Soviet regime"
Vincent Helped in Directive.
In other questioning. Gen. Mar
shall told Senator Smith that Mr..
Vincent helped prepare the di-
receive under which he went to
China at the end of World War
II in all effort to obtain an armis-
tice between the warning Nation
alist and Communist forces. In
time, he added, he became con-
WINGED there was no possibility
of dealing on a practical basis
with the Communist leaders.
During his tenure as Secretary
of State, Gen. Marshall said the
issue in his mind was the extent
to which this Government could
commit itself to a possible heavy
involvement in support of the
Nationalist regime.
II knew of my own knowledge
the very doubtful basis on which
their operations and their govern
mental procedure rested" Gen.
Marshall testified.
At that time, Gen. Marshall
pointed out, this country's mill
Itary position was extraordinarily
weak" He recalled previous testi-
mony that there were only one
and a third divisions in the entire
United States.
Marshall Tells of Problems.
He also said that Gen. Albert
C. Wedemeyer, who headed a sur
vey mission to China in 1947,
estimated in his report that about
10000 officers and others would
be required to direct proposed
operations in support of the Ma
tionalist government.
Gen. Marshall gave this discus
sion of the background of this
country's China policy when
Senator Smith sought to ascertain
whether he was aware of opposing
views within the department re-
garding China.
Those were the problems was
struggling with personally, while
was Secretary of State" Gen.
Marshall said. Rather than the
feeling on the one side of bolster
ing up, we will say, the Commu-
mist procedure, and the feeling on
the other side in regard to the
Nationalist forces"
Denies Wedemeyer Exile"
Secretary Marshall denied en-
phatically a suggestion by Senator
Smith that Gen. Wedemeyer had
been banished from Washington
to command the 9Th Army at San
Francisco because his views favor
ing strong support of the Chinese
Nationalist were in conflict with
those held by influential people in
the State Department.
He said Gen. Omar Bradley
chairman of the Joint Chiefs oil
Staff, had told him that Gen
Wedemeyer had asked for relief
here and specifically for the as
signment to San Francisco. Gen
IWedemeyer recently requested re-
tirement.
AS the Marshall part of thu
hearing entered its fourth day
Senator Smith resumed question.
ing that he had begun YESTERDAY
about these public statements O.
/ Gen. Ridgway, as well as thos'
of 1t. Gen. George E. Stratemeyer
Far Eastern air commander.
The hearings continued annie
Republican charges that the ad
ministration had imposed "a com
plete gag rule" on field com
. manderS.
5 Senator Bridges, Republican, o
h New Hampshire, gave that de
= scription to the administration
t order for clearance of statement
;. by commanders in the field.
Gen Marshall told the Senator
:. yesterday that he was not familia
: : with the Ridgway article in Loo
4 Magazine but that when Ger
i. Stratemeyer's interview appeare
: in the United States News an
h World Report 1--WE didn't particu
t. larly appreciate" it.
v But we had enough excite
ment in the air and he was no
It a person in the prominent posi-
! ton of Gen. Macarthur" h
added.
Gen. Stratemeyer was quoted a
saying in the copyright intervie,
AIthat the Reds were building u