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:
(Documents 1–255)
- 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)
- I. Efforts to expedite shipments of surplus military supplies and
ammunition to China; Chinese requests for armaments credit (Documents 1–76)
- 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: (Documents 383–584)
- 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)
- I. Formulation of program for aid to China; China Aid Act of 1948 (Documents 383–422)
- 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: (Documents 699–877)
- 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)
- 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)
- Negotiations respecting evacuation of certain refugee groups from Shanghai
through the International Refugee Organization (Documents 878–894)
- Index