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Foreign Relations of the United States, 1948, The Far East: China, Volume VIII

Evacuation of Americans from China:


Contents

    • 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)

      Contents

      • 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

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