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On July 30, 1944 Service wrote, "...the [[Communist]]s base their policy toward the [[Kuomintang]] on a real desire for democracy in [[China]] under which there can be orderly [[economic]] growth through a stage of private enterprise to eventual [[socialism]] without the need of [[violent]] social upheaval and [[revolution]]." <ref>E. J. Kahn, Jr., ''The China Hands: America's Foreign Service Officers and What Befell Them'', New York, 1972, pg. 118</ref> On June 6, 1945, he wrote to [[John Carter Vincent]], Chief of the State Department's Division of Chinese Affairs, that the Chinese Communists had a "moderate policy of preserving the interests of the middle class, including landlords and private business, and protection of the institution of private property and capitalism," and that "it is unnecessary and not likely for them to turn toward radicalism," concluding that "Kuomintang-Communist reconciliation seems more than ever to depend on Kuomintang concessions."<ref>Excerpts from Memorandum by Mr. John S. Service to the Chief of the Division of Chinese Affairs (John Carter Vincent), Washington, June 6, 1945, [http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=918 The Grand Alliance and the Future of China, 1945], TeachingHistory.org</ref>

On July 30, 1944 Service wrote, "...the [[Communist]]s base their policy toward the [[Kuomintang]] on a real desire for democracy in [[China]] under which there can be orderly [[economic]] growth through a stage of private enterprise to eventual [[socialism]] without the need of [[violent]] social upheaval and [[revolution]]." <ref>E. J. Kahn, Jr., ''The China Hands: America's Foreign Service Officers and What Befell Them'', New York, 1972, pg. 118</ref> On June 6, 1945, he wrote to [[John Carter Vincent]], Chief of the State Department's Division of Chinese Affairs, that the Chinese Communists had a "moderate policy of preserving the interests of the middle class, including landlords and private business, and protection of the institution of private property and capitalism," and that "it is unnecessary and not likely for them to turn toward radicalism," concluding that "Kuomintang-Communist reconciliation seems more than ever to depend on Kuomintang concessions."<ref>Excerpts from Memorandum by Mr. John S. Service to the Chief of the Division of Chinese Affairs (John Carter Vincent), Washington, June 6, 1945, [http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=918 The Grand Alliance and the Future of China, 1945], TeachingHistory.org</ref>

Jonathan Mirsky, former East Asia editor for the ''Times'' of London, reported that shortly before his death in 1999, Service admitted to him that he “purposely ignored Mao's persecution, including executions, of his perceived enemies at Yan'an.” (Asked why he had “covered-up” for the Communists, Service confessed, "I wanted them to win.")<ref>Jonathan Mirsky, “[http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052748704398304574598443437286438-lMyQjAxMDA5MDIwMTEyNDEyWj.html In Whose Service?]” ''The Wall Street Journal'', December 20, 2009</ref>

Jonathan Mirsky, former East Asia editor for the ''Times'' of London, reported that shortly before his death in 1999, Service admitted to him that he “purposely ignored Mao's persecution, including executions, of his perceived enemies at Yan'an.” (Asked why he had “covered-up” for the Communists, Service confessed, "I wanted them to win.")<ref>Jonathan Mirsky, “[http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052748704398304574598443437286438-lMyQjAxMDA5MDIwMTEyNDEyWj.html In Whose Service?]” ''The Wall Street Journal'', December 20, 2009. The Communists Service thus helped, whom he said he thought "were better than the Nationalists," would eventually murder some 70 million Chinese. Courtois et al. estimate Communist China at 65 million (Stephane Courtois, Jean-Louis Panne, Andrzej Paczkowski, Karel Bartosek, Jean-Louis Margolin [Mark Kramer, ed.; Jonathan Murphy, trans.], ''[http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674076082 The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression]'' [Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999] ISBN 9780674076082, p. 4); Jung and Halladay estimate "well over 70 million" (Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=3EZwAAAAMAAJ Mao: The Unknown Story]'' [London: Jonathan Cape, 2005] ISBN 0224071262, pp. 3, 560, 651); Rummel estimates 77 million. R.J. Rummel, "[http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles5/RummelDemocide.php Death by Government: Stalin Beat Hitler but Mao Surpassed Both]," ''Orthodoxy Today'', December 4, 2005</ref>

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