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The Stilwell Papers

three

Mor

Burma

now

40

American

he annoNCE

10

con.

Youngest son of Major and George Marshall's plan is stalls to sport themselves Chiang replied with an equivocal

3:30 meeting, and the Chines asked their questions which I church and enter by going down week, before. Without a strong biel written. The one about the ke the cellar behind the altar,, south' Burma landing, the Britiali number of British troops to par- made mu sick. When you refused to go through with the ticipate In the Burma campaign think how the place might and over-all

operation got under their skin. We work should have been trentini it which they had previously com- ed through st, with George [Mur

makes you mad. (0) You prob-mitted themselves. Chimp was shall lying it on the the about ably know that Jerusalem is a absent from this second arestan

city U.S. planes, US. pilots, U.S. hely

-He had flown back to Chump- religions,

king confident that all teas ar #lough, etc.

Kul A grand speech for Christian, 1.K.$18.00

Stilwell'a in there ranged. It tas the G-mo to war and incilea Jewish. The Jews

( task to go back and tell him that for the Limeys. tally

Abraham, the Christians Louls with HK$36.00

[Mountbatten] told to go to fix with Christ, and Mohammed took the Allies had reneged on their

'commitment. ჭი off from there for heaven. HK$72.00 It up.

IL Loak essential for Stilwell to since it was holy to all three know how to deat toith Chiang NOVEMBER 25-4:30 with they have been fighting over It in this situation and he sought Georpe to see F.D.R., who aull] for two thousand years and tak- and received an interview with Ching had agreed to the Burma ing turns at killing one another Roosevelt.

purpose plan].

and tearing the place to pieces. single-minded--what His F.D.R's plan for French Jerusalem, outside the wails, is pollen should | Indo-Chung-three commissions new within the past twenty-Ave Chiang? His notes on this recorded in Chinese, British, American, years and lonks like the outskirts persation he

quen to go back to France. Got after of Philadelphia. The most pre-tion and steer form.

Roosevelt folinived the conter him for troups. His pinn was a tetious buildings in town is the brigade of Marines in Chungking Y.M.C.A., built with Americanation with a personal cable to

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7045 opinion for some nondescript local Chiang requesting Mrs,

combat teams.

O.K. with 45-

there were some high spets- Chungking Berkomsted, bris, and Must give us men.

Well, Hopkhis sent for me at 9:30. Ukis the citadel, the native city, task of urging Chiang to attack Dorothy Rhupa Ermale Wright, etc'est daughter of Car lost. Got there at 10:30 band the old crookes! streets, the mixes in Burma uring ne compulsion Dr. & Mrs. R. A. Writing playing-whoopee-talked to Chur-population, the probably authen-greater than the force

of lis chilt. Hopkins says G-mo as of tie tomb of Christ Dalkey, Co. Dublin,

outsicle the personalitik 8:00 p.m. oes not like the plan

walls. the view of the Dead Sen. for Burma). My Gol Hok off the country scenes. But the pious CONFERENCE ON POLICY IN

CHINA and reverent who go there with again,

December 6, 1043, at Alexander solemn Ideas are due for shock.

Kirk's How

komr, Cairo, After Teheran. PRESENT: Roosevelt, H.H. [Harry Hopkins, J.W.S. Joseph W. Sulwell], and [Name of the fourth American deleted.] F.D.R.-Well, Joe, what do you

think of the burl nows? J.W.S.I haven't heard yet how F.D.R.-We're in an impasse. I've been stubborn as a mule for we can't get four days but

won't to anywhere, and

conference to end that

R.

W.

Harrow

PRISON CONDITIONS

of

Chiang went into his song and daner. We talkex! him down, H

NOVEMBER

with the

most

in.

Pansoor; and Stilwell returned to the same tortry

Is left

NOVEMBER 26 -Louis [Mount-

different here in Egypt, batten in at 11:00 to spill the The pyramids are untouched, dope. He is fed up on Chlang. The restorations are all dignified The 1947-48 annual report As who is not?

and authentic. Everything of the Commissioner of Pri-

11:30, to see Chiang, with Hap just na it was, with enough clear- [Arnok, Smuervell, ris makes disturbing read.

Wheeler, Ing so you can get to it. The Straterryer, and ing for any public spirited John Liù green with fright bear right here of

Chennnult. Sphinx and the Gizeh pyramids

our door, ofi ¦vilizon. It is Buently ad enuse we were three minutes iste, | course, (The Cheops pyramid mitted that imprisonment in Shang Chen peering out the door was 480 feet high) We went up Hong Kong is neither deter-

with ushen face and trembling to Sakkara, about ten miles out, kners. What a

for those to see the "step" pyramid--5000 Trent nor reformative, and that

boys. Senred willess all the time.

B.C. and the oldest masonry struc- the cost-more than $2,500,-fold him not to worry but he ture in the work. Near-by 000 Jast year-cannot be was very anxious about it.

the tomb of the Sacred Bull, an justified by results.

amazing cave hollowed out of the rock, where successivis bulls were Employment of prisoners wants Louis to keep his hands buried, each in its messing. This is only on a part-time basis.

off the ATC [Air Transport Com-coffin in its own side chapi, and the real "hard labour" mand-the Hump line]. Must have was about 3000 BC. Then near- devolves on the staff in find his 10,000 tons a month over the by again is the tomb of Thi ing sufficient work for the in- Hump). Finally said O.K. Sat prime minister and high priest,

around till 3:00. rappert.

delicate stone mates. Further, accommoda-

carving you can imagine. The tion is much too limited for

27 Everybody walls are covered with scene the present number of pri-beat it for Teheran. We wait till from the life of his time, and the soners, the daily average of they come back and aci. No drawing and carving would be which is 2.403. The report minutes for us [CBI command high class today. We thoroughly provides the astounding Wedemeyer has them and he enjoyed It. Of course there are

antiquities that w slonge Lincoln. I'm getting fired: statement that

80 per cent of that important young man. haven't time for, but these twn of the staff is untrained, and "Wor by Committer" is a bust, tombs were so satisfying that we that 40 per cent is unsuitable | The executors are left out on a

the rest pass up for training.

limb. With the prison population

NOVEMBER 30, E CYPT:

DECEMBER 1-LETTER TO increasing at the rate of 1,000 LETTER TO MES. STILWELL MRS. STILWELL Flayed hooky a year, the Commissioner is The

the again, and flew up to Luxor, the censor let able to disclose that the estab-country, but not the city.

of ancient Thebes. Two- So site ishment of a penal labour you'll have to guess. Maybe you hour fight up the Nile. What a

kmat about the

day! Went through the tombs of walia-walla camp has been approved in it's been going on for a week Seti 1, Rameses III, and Tutank./ principle by the Government.

and isn't over yet. I brought

hamen, Astounding things, all nt. The solution to the problem. Frank Morrill) and and we've

the end of long

ong rock

tunnels, The

reasonably contends, is been fighting for dear old Rutgers. With the walls covered with de legislative provision of alter-I have had to represent the C-mourations in colour, Hidden away natives to imprisonment for in all this business since his own in the hills west of the Nile and the hawking-without-a-people are completely ut sen, and now well taken care of. Saw the licence class of offender. At strangely enough I believe he is Colossi of Memnon and Rameses beginning to appreciate my'

Our priclpal trouble bed bank Then back on the cast present these technical law-efforts. [breakers are crowded to where it has always been, right

gether with murderers and at the top.

On Sunday we played hooky hardened criminals, and there and flew miles south, and then

here;

me name

a

can

lot of

regret.

the

without

temples of Luxar und Karnak. This was the centre of Egyptian culture for over a thou- and years and it must have been simply magnificent. The temples (Our place is less than one acre!) We had a guide named Abhoudi, He knew his history and -his

is no provision for classifica- rushed through the sights of the Karnak covered 1,000 acres.

tion.

earth

elty.

I learned some astonishing things. (1) ̧ Jerusalem has been destroyed by fre and quake and battle 32 times. (2) Each time the city was built up again on the debris, so the origin- al streels at the time of Christi

archeology, too. Runs a souvenir store on the side and picks up loot in the tombs.

Hawkers caught without a licence form a large part of the prison population. Un- able to find other occupation.

am all smoked up over Egypt.} they invest their small sav-

am a sucker for antiquities and ings in foodstuffs, clothing, are now parent levels to the this is where they are. I could! etc.. and then find themselves low the present levels. (3) The

spend months

wandering around unable to sell legally in the Present walls were built only here, and I hope to come back

the sixteenth century bat streets because of the limit probably accurately located on and

a

In

and do sometime. If it hadn't

set on the number of licences the original trace. (4) There is been for this conference I prob-

terrine

ably never would have seen these controversy which can be issued. They Christ was crucified and buried things. We shove off in a couple

where operate, therefore, in constant (5) Every one of the so-called days back to the manure plle. fear of the police. Many holy places" has been grabbed Wanted you to know what a grand members of the Force carry by some religious sect-wo claim interlude this has been. out their duties in an upright churches right on top of them. The Talieran conference forced manner, whatever their pri- The old surroundings have disa drastic alteration in the Calro vate feelings about the rights appeared entirely and all that is plans. At Teheran Stalin, with needed to make you believe you American military agreement, and wrongs of the present are at Coney Island is a hot-dox insisted on a- masalve cross chaotic situation. Others, stand. Christ's birthplace, which Channel invasion in 1944. The however, are well and truly was in a big cave used in part ns decision to make this invasion

the stable, is now just a holte Billedforced

American-Brillant In the "squeeze" racket, and

with junk lamps and horrible planners to curtail alarply the conduct a lucrative "protec-marble bathroom decorations quantity of landing craft the tion" business.-

which you

iad allotted to the south Bunna approach through a

landing and consequently altered the entire strategy of the for the Burma offensive.

The hawker who is unable or unwilling to hand over certain portion of his earnings long legs of the Law-and is liable to see a hefty police- their entire stock. removed. man bear down on him-Whether such invasion of Ignoring perhaps two equal-private properly can be jus- ty-unlicensed sellers-wreck fled is a question which his stall or destroy his stock needs ventilation. in-trade and cart him off into In any case, these are the

custody. Charges have also "lawbreakers" who, congest been made that in the mean- four prisons at present, and time another uniformed rald- the Commission would profer er has carried off the offend-to put them, once sentenced er's stock, which, however, by the Courts, into useful does not necessarily appeal employment. In some Bri- in court,

tish colonies, prisoners are It would also be interest hired out to private Arms- ine to know what are the under proper supervision-to police rights in the matter of build roads, housies and pursuit. Some hawkers bridges. They are able par- operate near the place they tially to pay for their keep live, displaying only a small and to earn a small amount part of their wares on the of money for themselves. street, and returning for Critics of this system there more to their room when the have been, but provided the first lot: is sold. They plan men are not slave-driven, to avoid complete confiscation surely it is better to have In the event of a raid On them, engaged in constructive the approach of the police, work, than to rot in near- they

may escape upstaira, idleness week after week in only to be followed by the some steamy prison 2.4,ta

bad it is,

way.

The British just

F.D.R. Well, now, we've been

For

we haven't the same ahus DE the British out there. instance, Hong Kong,

Now.

I have a plan to make Hong Kong a free port: free to the commerce of alf nations--of the whole world! But let's raise the Chinese fing there first, and then Chiang con the next ring make a grand Resture and make it a fres port.

That's the Wly in handle that! Same way in Dairen! I'm sure that Chiong would be willing to make that a free port, and goods could come through Siberia- In bond without customs examinations.

-What in your opinion caused

the noble attitude of the

Russlans In

allowing Chinn

to have Manchuria? F.D.R.Well, I think they con- sider they've got enough as It Is. You can put a hundret milliou more people into Si- berla, Stalin toest' want any more ground. He's goi enough. He agreed with me abquí Koren und In:lo-Chine. We should set up commissions In taky charge of those countries

for

twenty-five years or so, till we get them on their feet. Just he the Philippines. I asked Chlang. point-blank If the wanted Inclo-Chisin, and he said.

"Under

110 circumstances!"

Just like that "Under no clrcumstances." J.W.S.-Chiang will have trouble explaining to his people the Allied failure to open Hurma F.D.R. Yes, Yes. But if we don't put mare tonnaga over the Hump. Yes, we can get more freight Into Ching that way.

a

is

and twenty servmits, Aur I sat, "Mr. K'ung, when I was governor of New York State, I had a superintendent

highway o!

constructions named Green-tevar know Green?)--and he was pakl $15,000. And he was thus beat ront engineer 1 over Na W. But he's deart. But don't pay $100,000-pay $15,- 000-no house, no servants. You don'! want to pay $100,- 000,

are Why, there

any number of good engineers in the Army-not the regular service, men from civit n

-and you can get them for

$8,000. They can do that kind of work. But no eX- ploitation,"

STOOGE-The

IN

Prime Minister

Irere. F.D.R.Well, now, there you are

and remember, YOU'RE AMBASSADORSI Ha! Ha! Ha! Yes, air, you're my Am- bussactors.

Ent of Conference Draw your own conclusions. H.-What do you think wouk!

on

a good religion in Japan? {The Following Are Some Un-

Passing Notes

Cairo rinted Found Among, the Papers.]

George C. Marshall says a goodi chance for Germany to crack by February 1944.

In September George Marshall was going to let me out and give me the Fourth Army, If I want-

decision would live been. ex [t. He asked me what my

Kirk says

the Army shoutch mutiny and take control. makes him wild to watch the

It

antics of the politicos." "Here I'vo bem -for thirty years and my muscles ought to be all re- Inxed," etc.

de the operation, and I can'tHt-Is this CNAC a Pan .W.S.-I am interested to know

American subaldinry? get them to agree to it.

J.W.S.-Forty-nine per cont

American, nfty-one per cent how this affects our policy in China

Is Chinese.

Antics by Chlang. The boys F.D.R. Well, that's all right. The got a faint idon of what it means Chinese can run their altline to work with him. Demandet Inside of China. I have no change in plans, and 800 more objection to that.

Now, I planes to make it work. F.DR. would agree

lo the British. made everything worse by telling after the war, running pas him we were going to haul 12,000 senger planer for Australia

Itans monthly over Hump). from England to New York,

George C. Marshall's outburst: letting off passengers for New "Now let me get this straight. York, tuking on passengers You talking about your for Australia and ten flying rights in this matter. I thought. to San Francisco, letting off these were American plance, and passengers from England, and American personnel, and Ameri- taking on passengers for Aus- | con materials, don't understand tralla. But not to take pas- what you mean by saying that sengers on at New York and we can or can't do thus and so."

at San Chu 'Shih-ming hud over-renched!

himself a bit.

friends with China for ** m-e-e-at many years. I us- cribe a large part of this feel- ing to the missionaries. You know I have a China history.

went My grandfather

out there, to Swatow and Canton, In 1829, and even went up to Hunkow. He did what was ambition every American's In those

mado A clays-he million dollars, and when he came back he put 北 into western railroads.

****

Anci In eight years, he lost every dollar.

Ha Ha! Ha! Thon In 1850 he went out again and Atayed there alt through the Civil War, and made un- other million. This Ume he put it into coal mines, and they didn't pay a dividend until ten years after he died, Ha! Ha! Ha!

.W.S.I take it that it is, our

to build China up. policy F.D.R.Yes. Yes. Build her up.

After this

war there will be a great need of our help. They will want lout. Marlame

the Chlang and G-mo wanted to get a loan now of a billion dollars, but

or. a

I told them it would be diff- cult to get Congress to agree to it. Now, I'm not a finan cial

(1) but expert

have a plan to take fifty undred

dollars and buy:up Chines

paper

dollars on the black market, It wouldn't take much. When the Chinese found out that these notes were being bought up, they would tend to hold them and the

rule would come down. We might beat the inflation that

that way. And I'd share the profit the Chinese government--I'å put the notes in escrow and when they were needed I'd sell them to the Chinese för what I paid for them. -The effect on the Chinese of failing to reopen communica- tions

with

F.D.R.-Yes, Yes. How long do

you think Chiang can last? J.W.S.-The situation is serious and a repetition of last May's attack might overturn him. F.D.R.-Well, then

we should look for some other man or plan.W.S.-They would probably be

group of men, to curry on looking for us. F.D.R-Yes, they would coine to us. They really like us and just between ourselves, they don't like the British. Now,

Roosevelt and Churchill re- turned to Calro and there they reopened study of all the de- cisions that had been made the

DO YOU

KNOW YOUR HONG

KONG?

Dally in the "China Man”. In future (will | api

graph similar, to poar a photo-

"that" abovej: odd, shots of famlitar

:bulidinga ve 'strastų sapRA can you recor

letting them off Francisco. Oh, no. J.W.S. We

Blr.

01:

political policy on China, F.D.R.-Yes. As I was saying, the

Chinese will want a lot of help from us a lot of [1. Why, K'ung one time asked me for a loan of fifty million dollars for developing traus- portation and I sild to him, j "Mr. K'ung, that's a lot of money!" Then I said to him, "What are you going to use and he this

money for" said. "Construction materials," und be Kold,

to tryi and influence me. "If we get this loan, we'll buy those materials right hero In the United States." And I came

right back at him and said. "Mr. K'ung, in your country you have construction you materials already. You have cement, you have sand, you have rock-you havo all

materials."

Then he

said, "Yes, but we need tech- nical help engineers and other technicians. We would pay a good engineer $100,000

a year, and give him a house

are

(To Be Continued)

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