I recall in one of Scott’s books he mentions that while we were openly supporting Chiang, and probably most Americans were also supporting him totally, there was a significant group who were sabotaging him.
He tells of flying transports filled with desks, and junk like that to Chennault when they needed and were asking for fuel, ammo, parts etc.
Scott also mentioned Mao being able to cancel attacks they were making against the Japanese because he didn’t want the bridges damaged as it would help him against Chiang.
Harry Dexter White in the Treasury Department played a key role in sabotaging U.S. economic aid to the Nationalists, as even his friendly biographer admits.In a December 9, 1944 memo to Treasury Secretary Morgenthau, White wrote, "We have stalled as much as we have dared and have succeeded in limiting gold shipments to $26 million during the past year. We think it would be a serious mistake to permit further large shipments at this time." The U.S. government had made a commitment to Chiang in writing to supply $200 million in gold to curb inflation in Nationalist China. White's policy prevented the shipment until it was too late to be effective in stemming the inflation, a contributing factor to loss of American confidence in Chiang and thus to Chiang's defeat.
White also supported the propaganda line favorable to the Communists. Reporting to Morgenthau on the Dixie Mission on October 16, 1944, White wrote that the interests of the Chinese Communist Party "do not run counter to those of the United States in the foreseeable future and merit a sympathetic and friendly attitude on our part."
With White, unlike the China Hands, there is evidence that he was involved in Communist groups. Both Elizabeth Bentley and Whittaker Chambers named White as a member of Communist cells, the Silvermaster and Ware groups respectively . . . more