Research Catalog

Title

The Truman administration and China, 1945-1949 / Ernest R. May.

Author

May, Ernest R.

Publication

Philadelphia : Lippincott, 1975.

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Description

xiii, 112 p.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

The America's alternatives series

Uniform Title

The America's alternatives series.

Subject

• China > Foreign relations > United States
• United States > Foreign relations > China

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [101]-107.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Part One: The Truman administration and China -- 1. 1945: "A united, democratically progressive, and cooperative China" -- Reportage from China -- The policymakers in Washington -- 2. Mediation to achieve unification: General Marshall's mission to China -- Growing sentiment for support of the nationalists -- 3. Military aid to Nationalist China -- The diplomats' perspectives -- The military's perspectives -- The bureaucratic structure of military decision making -- The state department's perspectives -- 4. Military advisors for nationalist forces: General Wedemeyer's mission to China -- "Moral encouragement and material aid" -- 5. Intervention in the Chinese Civil war -- Public and congressional pressure for aid -- 6. A policy of nonintervention -- Aid to China and Europe: Limiting considerations -- The China Aid act: "Three cheers for the nationalist government" -- Marshall's decision against military involvement -- Retrospect: If Vietnam, why not China? --^
• The factual bases of the decisions -- The perceptual bases of the decisions -- The economic bases of the decisions -- The critical variables in the decisions: psychological factors -- Organizational factors -- Environmental factors -- Determining the decisive factors: the limits of historical analysis -- Part Two: Documents of the decision -- Wartime policy and the outlook from Washington after the war -- United States policy objectives defined, January 1945 -- "The situation in China: a discussion of United States policy with respect thereto" -- "A desperate state of affairs" -- General Marshall's mission to China -- Directives for Marshall's mission -- America's commitment to Chiang Kai-shek: December, 1945 -- General Marshall: Obstacles to peaceful unification -- The question of military aid to nationist China -- Military aid and American interests -- View from the state department: to limit military involvement -- Establishing the advisory groups --^
• Suggested concessions from Chiang -- The joint chiefs of staff advocate military aid -- Policy differences between the state department and the joint chiefs of staff -- Marshall seeks a solution -- General Wedemeyer's mission to China -- Truman's directive to Wedemeyer -- Wedemeyer's recommendations -- Limited military aid to nationalist China -- Viewpoint of the army advisory gropu: A need for emergency measures -- The cost of military aid -- Rendering effective assistance: Increase military aid -- Determining the form of assistance -- Rejecting responsibility for Chinese strategy and plans -- "Gambler's choice in China" -- an opinion from the left -- "China: A report to the American people" -- An opinion from the right -- Report of a Gallup poll, April 28, 1948 -- The policy of nonintervention -- Marshall's views on the China Aid act -- The senate foreign relations committee in executive session -- Further executive session deliberations of the state foreign relations committee --^
• The China aid act, April 3, 1948 -- Report from the national security council on short-term aid -- The military situation in China: June, 1948 -- "The U.S. Government should not attempt to run the Chinese Government's war" -- The United States must not get "sucked in" -- "Inaction will not be in our interests" -- Marshall reaffirms his decision -- Report of Gallup polls, December 15, 1948.

ISBN

0397473281

LCCN

^^^74031184^

OCLC

• 1121165
• SCSB-10955247

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library