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{ consummated? 4 ‘and ‘ycommuni-|~ aatad-se-rie. ere “The report. furthermore is, Kew Gaines and many clearly demonstrates that the c basis of such agreemients Jay|, “There 1s not the slightest in decisions .taken by the State hint of documentation over-my Department on political policy signature in the entire Defénse and the Joint Chiefs of Staff on pac peice report yaa ever re motely Be: 'P military poli od Jong . befor ° of these territorial concessions . pies these I was not ‘Informed. which so adversely altered the However, once’ such . decisions|course‘of future events in Asia; had been taken and communi-/or that after my initial recom- cated to me following Yalta, mendation in 194.-I advocated they became binding upon me prior to Yalta that Russia enter as upon any other theater com-|the Pacific war. “To hold the mander, All future discussions |Comtrary is to prevaricate the thereon with War Department|truth and the record. trepresentatives necessarily be-; “I repeat had my views been icame ‘limited to consideration requested concerning the secre “of their ultimate application to agreements bearing upon Ru the conduct of the war. The/sia’s entry into the Pacific’ wa attempt to interpret any state-/I would have opposed t them a “ments I may have made in the fantastic.” course of such post-Yalta dis- Sa a Re A ta: cussions as reflecting my pre- ‘Yalta views and convictions is iwholly unwarranted. . reed Russian Attack - “The issue involved ‘at the ‘origin of this controversy was not whether Russia should have ween brought into the Pacific ‘war—this should have clearly been: done at the very begin- ning—but whether we should ‘have made vital territorial con- ceessions at the expense of -Chi- ‘nese sovereigaty to induce Rus- ssia to come in. at the end. On Dec. 13, 1941, I urged that Rus- ‘sia attack- immediately from e north. This would have saved countless lives, billions of dollars and-spared the Phil- ines, Malaya, the Dutch East _ ew | ~