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Tniman ISays I Stalin Offered To Aid Chiang WASHINGTON lB Ex-Presi-i dent Truman says the late Soviet! Premier Stalin voiced misgivings! auuui uie iuua agreement auu promised all-out backing of Gen eralissimo Chiang Kai-Shek in Chi naas late as mid-1945. In the latest installment of Tru man's memoirs, published in life magazine. the 'former President says Stalin expressed his views in a Moscow talk with Harry L. Hop- j kins, Truman's special representa- j tive, and Averell Harriman, then1 ambassador to Russia. i Truman says in that May 28. -1945, conversation Stalin undertook to have the Red army "properly deployed" to strike against Japan ' by .early August. The former Pres-; ldent. goes on to say, quoting a cablegram he received from Hop . kins: .- -., -.?..' , "Stalin repeated the statement' he made at Yalta that the Russian 1 people must have a good reason for going to war and that depend ed on the willingness of China to agree to the Yalta proposals. . . "Stalin -made categorical ; state ment that he would do everything he could to promote unification of China under the leadership of Chi ang. Kai-Shek. Reds "Not Strong" : "He further stated that this lead ership should continue after the war because no one else was strong v enough. He specifically stated no Communist leader was strong enough to unify China. "Russia later lent its backing to the Communists who, after, World War II, drove Chiang from the Chinese mainland. One of the great controversies stemming froaj that period concerns the question whether the Western allies made too-many concessions at the ex - pense of Chiang, among others as the price of getting Russia into the war against Japan. Truman hopskotches from world politics to private affairs in this installment . - -Refused Nomination He tells of refusing steadfastly to accept the Democratic vice presidential nomination in 1944 un til he heard President Roosevelt say, in i a telephone conversation with then National Oiairman Rob ert Hannegan during the Chicago convention:' -. j i "Well, you tell him (Truman) if he wants to break up the Demo cratic Party in the middle of a war, that's his responsibility." . It was only then, Trumaii says, that he really believed what many "party leaders had been telling lum that ,he was FDR's personal choice. Truman's comment at the time, as he recalls it: ; ' "Well if that is the situation i n have to say yes, but why the hell didn't he tell me in the first iff. place?" f v ( Backed Byrnes ' ' Up to . that point Truman .had ! been supporting James F. Byrnes for .the vice presidential . nomina tionin large measure; he says, ! because Byrnes asked him to do i so and assured him Roosevelt had selected him (Byrnes) for running i mate. . Actually, Truman says, he later learned Roosevelt had tnlrf a pri vate meeting of party leaders long 1 r m ' ..mm . ! Deiore uie convention his personal choice was .Truman. Moreover, says Truman, Roosevelt sent word of the decision Jo .Byrnes... "I believe, therefore," the ex President says, "that Byrnes knew that the President had named me at the time he called me in Inde pendence and asked me to nomin ate him at the convention." Failed to Read Order Truman says he made an early fumble in the White House because he failed to read an order eiven him by two officials for his signa-i ture. The order which . outraged the British and the Russians called for an immediate cutoff, of lend lease after World War IL Truman understood it was to be only a reduction in American aid. . - . 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