The China White Paper 1949(XVIII)

Ambassador Hurley left China for the States on September 22, 1945. Meanwhile negotiation between Chungking and the CCP continued. In early October, Dr. K.C. Wu, the Minister of Information of Chinese Government through the US Embassy at Chungking told Hurley that the CCP had agreed to accept the proposal by Nationalist Government that they were to be given 20 divisions in the National Army. A military commission would work out the time table and General Yeh Chien-ying (葉劍英) would represent the CCP in this commission. Also, a political council 0f 37 members would be established during the interim. CCP insisted that this council should adopt a 'system of absolute veto', which meant that all proposals would have to receive unanimous approval before they became effective.1 In late October, a CCP representative at Chungking told the US Embassy that recent negotiations had yielded little progress.2 He felt that the Nationalist government was buying time for the purpose of securing military control over areas liberated by CCP, and that the American was landing troops to many points in North China, and holding them until the arrival of the Nationalist army. On November 4, 1945, the Embassy at Chungking reported that the chance of a widespread civil war in China was growing. The Communist was trying to prevent the Nationalist government troops from entering the areas they controlled. They had offered to refrain from attacking communication lines if the Nationalist government stopped moving troops into North China. The Nationalist government rejected such a request.3

Notes:
1.United States, Department of State. The China White Paper-August 1949. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1967, page 108.
2. Ibid., page 109.
3. Ibid., page 110.