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Marshall Mission Files, Lot 54–D270

Preliminary Agreement To Govern the Amendment and Execution of the Army Reorganization Plan of February 25, 19468

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The following conditions are agreed to by the Committee of Three and are to be included in the amendments to the document signed [Page 1247] February 25, 1946. “Basis for Military Reorganization and for the Integration of the Communist Forces into the National Army”. These conditions are established for the purpose of committing the Government and the Communist Party to certain understandings in order to facilitate the preparation and acceptance of the formal documents required and to permit the immediate issuance of instructions for the final termination of hostilities.

1.
The specific disposition of troops in Manchuria and China proper must be finally agreed to at this time for both National and Communist troops. And it is understood that these assignments will refer to definite localities rather than to areas.
2.
The ratio previously agreed to between the total strength of the Government and Communist forces will not be altered.
3.
The periods previously established for the assignment of the troops into specified localities will be altered for the first phase (originally 12 months) to six months except where specifically stated to the contrary.
4.
The Executive Headquarters will immediately determine the localities which have been occupied by the Government or Communist forces in China proper since January 13, 1946 and will require the troops involved to vacate those localities within 20 days after signing this agreement unless specifically directed otherwise.
5.
The Executive Headquarters will immediately determine the localities occupied by the Government or Communist forces after noon of June 7, 1946 and will require the troops involved to vacate those localities within 10 days after the signing of this agreement unless specifically directed otherwise.
6.
The Chinese Communist Party agrees to a Government garrison in Harbin of one regiment of not to exceed 5,000 men, and to the establishment of a coalition government.
7.
The Chinese Communist Party has agreed to concentrate its troops in specified localities, it being understood that the Government troops will not move into the areas thus vacated and that the present established civil government and the Peace Preservation Corps for the maintenance of local security, will be continued. It is further agreed that in these areas no restrictions will be imposed on imports or exports, and free communication with adjacent regions will be assured. It is also agreed that the issue of local currency will be discontinued and the existing local currency will be gradually replaced in circulation by currency of the National Government on a basis to be determined by mutual agreement between the Communist Party and the fiscal authority of the government.
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[Annex]

Annex to Agreement of Committee of Three Dated June — 1946 Regarding Conditions To Govern Amendments and Execution of the Army Reorganization Plan of February 25, 1946

In accordance with paragraph 6 of this agreement the Chinese Communist Party agrees that in implementing the Army Reorganization agreement of February 25, 1946 the following conditions will govern:

a. Communist troops will not be garrisoned or concentrated within any of the following areas:

  • Anwhei—All of the province after 6 weeks.
  • Kiangsu—South of the latitude of Hwai-an exclusive, after 6 weeks.
  • Shantung—1. Tsaochuang area after 6 weeks.
    • 2. Tsingtao–Tsinan R. R. after 2 weeks.
    • 3. Northeast Shantung after 2 months.
    • 4. Lin-cheng after 2 weeks.
    • 5. Te-Hsien.
  • Chahar—South of the latitude of Kalgan exclusive, within 3 months.
  • Jehol—South of the latitude of Cheng-tu exclusive, within 3 months.
  • Hupeh–Honan Border Area—The Communist troops in that area will be moved to Hopei within 2 months.
  • Shansi—Wen-hsi within 1 month.
  • Manchuria—All provinces except Hei-Lungchiang, Hsing-an, Central and Northern Nun-chiang and Eastern Kirin within 3 months.

  1. Draft prepared by General Marshall on June 29.↩