890.20/8–1249: Airgram
The Consul General at Taipei (Macdonald) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 24—5:18 p. m.]
A–75. Assistant Military Attaché, Taipei, Captain Manning, told me that the Generalissimo’s son made the remark to him and several other people that after the Pacific Union is formed the Philippines and Korea will receive American assistance after which China will be able to get aid through them.
This apparently is the general line of Chinese thinking at present and was expressed yesterday at an interview granted to Handleman of I. N. S. by K. C. Wu who stated:
“The release of the White Paper1 by the State Department exposes the unwise and impractical U.S. policy; but it is hoped that the U.S. can extend indirect assistance to China through the Pacific Union.”
- August 5; see vol. ix, pp. 1365 ff.↩