Foreign Relations of the United States, 1948, The Far East: China, Volume VIII
Editors:
- E. Ralph Perkins
- Fredrick Aandahl
- Francis C. Prescott
- Herbert A. Fine
- Velma Hastings Cassidy
United States Government Printing Office
Washington
1973
- Preface
- United States military assistance to China:
- I. Efforts to expedite shipments of surplus military supplies and ammunition to China; Chinese requests for armaments credit (Documents 1-76)
- II. Assistance to China under the $125,000,000 grant of the China Aid Act; Chinese pleas for greater military assistance and support from the United States (Documents 77-187)
- III. Establishment of a Joint United States Military Advisory Group to the Republic of China (JUSMAGCHINA) (Documents 188-205)
- IV. Requests by the Chinese Government for assistance in evacuation of Chinese Air Force equipment from Shanghai and removal of surplus property from Tsingtao and Shanghai (Documents 206-215)
- V. Chinese requests for aviation gasoline; concern of the United States regarding excessive oil stocks in Shanghai falling into Chinese Communist hands (Documents 216-231)
- VI. Rumors of plans to establish new American volunteer air force group in China (Documents 232-244)
- VII. Madame Chiang Kai-shek’s visit to the United States to appeal for further immediate military aid (Documents 245-255)
- Status of United States naval and marine forces at Tsingtao; question as to withdrawal (Documents 256-287)
- Efforts leading to release of United States marines captured by Chinese communists (Documents 288-297)
- Opposition by the United States to proposals for an international police force for Shanghai during transition period (Documents 298-308)
- Financial relations between the United States and China: interest of the United States in Chinese efforts to maintain financial stability; representations regarding fixing of an equitable rate of exchange for expenditures by American armed forces and diplomatic establishment in China (Documents 309-382)
- United States economic aid to China:
- I. Formulation of program for aid to China; China Aid Act of 1948 (Documents 383-422)
- II. Agreement between the United States and China on economic aid, signed at Nanking, July 3, 1948 (Documents 423-512)
- III. Exchange of notes by the United States and China on the establishment of the Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction in China, August 5, 1948 (Documents 513-537)
- IV. Problems encountered by the United States in furnishing aid to China under the China Aid Act of 1948: danger of increasing inflation by aid funds; continuing aid to Chinese resisting Communists in North China; decision to discontinue aid in areas coming under Communist control (Documents 538-570)
- V. Preparation of program for continuation of aid to China after expiration of the China Aid Act of 1948 (Documents 571-584)
- Negotiations with China regarding final settlement of war accounts (Documents 585-594)
- Problems arising from the implementation of the surplus property agreement of August 30, 1946 (Documents 595-618)
- Representations regarding the re-registration of American real property rights in China (Documents 619-624)
- Representations by American embassy regarding Chinese censorship of American motion pictures (Documents 625-627)
- Agreement between the United States and China regarding claims resulting from activities of United States military forces in China
- Agreement between the United States and China regarding entry of relief supplies and packages into China
- Negotiations between the United States and China respecting joint efforts in the exploration of China for minerals of importance in the atomic energy programs of the two governments (Documents 628-640)
- Negotiations concerning United States Senate reservation to treaty of friendship, commerce, and navigation signed November 4, 1946, and regarding exchange of interpretative notes (Documents 641-664)
- Negotiations respecting revision of the air transport agreement of December 20, 1946 (Documents 665-693)
- Consideration of sending to China a technical civil aviation mission to assist the Chinese Government (Documents 694-698)
- Evacuation of Americans from China:
- I. Preliminary warnings to American citizens to leave danger areas; development of policies and plans for the evacuation of Americans from China; gradual withdrawal of non-essential American civilians (January–October 11) (Documents 699-741)
- II. Official emergency warnings; evacuation of American civilians and dependents of American officials; provisions for emergency protection (October 13–December 31) (Documents 742-877)
- Negotiations respecting evacuation of certain refugee groups from Shanghai through the International Refugee Organization (Documents 878-894)
- Index