“I recommended that we establish contact with [the Chinese communists]. We had established contact through a military mission there but that we did not … we should not withdraw recognition from Chiang Kai-shek at that time, but we should recognize the inevitability of the loss, Chiang's loss to Mao, and that therefore we should, establish relations of the type that I described that we had with warlords, with the communists, and that we have, say, a consulate there, so that there was a political contact in addition to the military. That, of course, did not go down.”

— John Paton Davies, Jr.

Source: interview http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/coldwar/interviews/episode-15/davies1.html

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