026 China/8–1649: Telegram
The Chargé in China (Clark) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 16—12:57 p. m.]
Cantel 959. Chen Li-fu,61 as might be expected, was vitriolic on White Paper. He complained bitterly that when Marshall was here he saw only Communists and sought only understand Communist points of view, ignoring Kmt elder statesmen. He, Chen, had had only one discussion with Marshall. Yu Yu-jen,62 Yu Ta-wei63 and Chu Chia-hua had fared likewise, he said. Ire from reactionary elements in Kmt [Page 1396] over White Paper is of course to be expected. Word comes to me from Chiang Monlin,64 however, who discussed matter with Generalissimo in Taipei and quotes Generalissimo as saying lightly: “I suppose they had to get it out of their system.”