Second only to Service himself in pounding home the message was John Davies, who depicted the Yenan regime as “a modern, dynamic popular government,” called Chiang’s government “politically bankrupt,” and declared that “the Communists are in China to stay and China’s destiny is not Chiang’s but theirs.”16 Still other FSOs would reinforce these notions, playing up the supposed virtues of Yenan and the corruption, inefficiency, and other evils of the KMT. After his amazingly frank discussion of the gold loan record, White still undertook to persuade Morgenthau that the Treasury had been right in its obstructionism, “because the money is being badly used.” Others from time to time would discuss the issue with Morgenthau in similar fashion, suggesting that the gold be withheld or doled out in driblets. I think the biggest international change, if the CCP had not won the civil war in China, is that we might have had today a united western oriented Korea today, as I don’t think a democratic China in the 1950s would have supported the North Korean dictatorship in the war it initiated against the south.
Author: KYODO NEWS
Published at: 2025-08-25 21:40:55
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