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according to the Chinese delegation, had laid the foundations over the last five years for the success of the Chinese Communists. The following is the Chinese representative's summary of his allegations : " It will be seen that the programme of the Soviet Union in relation to China during the post-war period, as revealed by its acts of commission, and omission, and supported by abundant and incontrovertible evidence, falls generally into three parallel lines of attack. " First, it was the policy of the Soviet Union to obstruct every effort of the Chinese Government to take over Manchuria and reestablish its authority there. The Soviet Union denied to China the use of Dairen in transporting troops to Manchuria ; it placed obstacles in China's way when my Government tried to use other ports, railways, and air transport. The Soviet Union prevented China from recruiting and organizing local military units to maintain law and order. The Soviet Union refused to furnish prompt and accurate information on the timetable of the withdrawal of its troops so that Chinese Government troops might take over the areas as they were evacuated. " Secondly, the Soviet authorities in Manchuria deliberately afforded the maximum and unfettered opportunities for the growth and expansion of Chinese Communist forces, and to permit these forces to use strategic centres of Manchuria as bases of operations against the Chinese Government. " Thirdly, the Soviet Government actively supported the Chinese Communists, militarily, economically and morally, with vast stores of captured and surrendered Japanese arms and ammunition and military supplies manufactured in the Soviet Union itself. " Finally, the Soviet Union took advantage of its occupation of Manchuria and the tragic circumstance of the civil war to demand from China vast economic concessions in Manchuria, comprising eighty per cent of the industrial resources of the region and including civil aviation. Although my Government refused these demands, there can be no doubt that the Soviet Union is completing the economic conquest of Manchuria with the connivance of the Chinese Communists. "It goes without saying that these acts perpetrated by the Soviet Union toward China are in open violation of the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Alliance and the annexed Agreements which were concluded between the two nations as late as August 14, 1945. While pledging to regard Manchuria as part of China and reaffirming its respect for China's full sovereignty over Manchuria and recognizing its territorial and administrative integrity, the Soviet Union has been using every tiick in the books to prevent the Chinese Government from re-establishing its authority over Manchuria. On the contrary, the Soviet Union was actually trying to force the Chinese Government to accept her as a partner over the whole area, giving her part control over eighty per cent of the heavy industries of Manchuria, as well as the operation of all major civil airfields. While pledging to give to the National Government as the Central Government of China moral support as well as aid in military supplies, the Soviet Union did the exact opposite thing of fostering the growth and expansion of the Chinese Communist Party whose programme it is to overthrow the National Government of China. This is imperialism in all its nakedness.