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grounds of corruption and incompetence.
Considerable
difficulty has also been caused by the unwillingness
or inability of the Chinese Government to provide
C.N.R.R.A. with sufficient funds to perform its
functions properly.
4. By far the most contentious and troublesome
question connected with U.N.X.R.A. in China has
however been that of distribution to Communist
areas.
Under the Basic agreement with U.N.R.R.a.
signed in 1945 the Chinese Government undertook
to distribute U.N.R.R.A. supplies without political
discrimination, and the application of this
principle to those parts of China controlled by the
Chinese Communists has caused much dispute between
U.N.R.X.A. and the Chinese Government. The matter
has of course been complicated by the large scale
hostilitics which have for the past fifteen months
been waged between the Chinese Government and
Communist armies in north China and Manchuria.
Finally, after a number of incidents had occurred
the China Office in July 1947 banned deliveries
to Comunist areas, alloging Langer to staff and
deliberate obstruction by Chinese Government military
authorities in contravention of assurances given
by the Chinese Government, and the matter was
referred to the Central Committee of U.N.R.R.A. in
Washington. The Central Committee decided that
supplies destined for both sides in the war zone north of the par llel 34°N should be inpounded
provisionally while the China Office made another
attempt to get both Central Government and
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