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CHINA AID YEARLY?
Washington, November 23.
One view held among well-informed sourcos hore is that it would take US$500,000,000 United States aid yourly for several years and 10,000 bolster United States officers and mon to Chiang Kai-shek's armies to the point whore they could recover control of China, There was no indication in Government quarters whether officials consided this feasible in view of the demand upon United States aid from other parts of the world. Informed sources said it-might-cause-Russio-to-give the Communists similar aid and thus bring in effect, between the United States and Soviet Russia,
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Communist Zeal
Those who favour this plan Nationalist claim that
China is doomed otherwise. although Chinng Kal-shek and some of his divisions may hold out indefinite- ty around Canton, Chungking, or possibly
from Formosa, even They claim that there is tundamental difference in num ters, troops or equipement between Ching's forces and the Commun- int armies, but the latter have a psychological edge and show zeal for their chuse which ncking on the Nationalist side.
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lilders of this view contend that Nationalist officials and mill- tary leaders in great numbers are incompetent Ur unscrupulous. The masses of the people are dis- with appeinted with them and the lack of reforms and progress.
They think they sec Tomc new hope In the Communlata. This accounts for the zeal in rebai armles and the the favourable reception they have won in some places among the common people.
More Aid Asked For Philippines
New York, November 23. Senator Enrique B. Maga- lona, of the Philippines, today urged the United States gov. ernment and people of the United States to give more “economic and military aid to
his country.
$2,000,000,000
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1948.
He said 1,000,000 Filipinos died during the war and that the coun- ldsses of try suffered property nearly
but the, United States Congress appro- printed "only $400,000,000" to fulfil the late President Roose- velt's promise to make good such losses,
Senator Magalona said: "Am. erica should augment its foraps In the Philippines because the Philippines la a bulwark of de- and the Far East mocracy In Flipinos at no time and under no alrcumstances will evar turn against Americans.
"The Philippines can be an iden) hub for the trade of the United States In the Far East. Moreover, American investors need not fear anything in Philippines."United Press.
SELECTIVE RATIONING
the
Aid Required PEARL BUCK DEMANDS
AID FOR ALL CHINESE
For Wounded
Bhanghai, November 24, Mr. E. D. Bowder, the Pub- tic Relations Omcer of the Civil Air Transport, made an appexi yesterday for ald in form for seriously алу wounded Chinees soldiers bea. Ing town here from the Hsu. chow war front at the rate of 300 dully.
He appealed especially to the foreign
community to show their appreciation for thors soldiers who are "fight. Ing the Communials to pro- fect us." He asked for male nurses ar doɑtors to volunteer their serviors for the soldiers many of whom he described as being without hands legs.
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Mr. Bowder ravasted that the CAT, whose president Is Gentral Claire Chonnault, are making alx nights dally to the front lines to plok up the wounded, who are down to- Nanking and Shanghal on the floor of a plane whore they lid groaning, their gap- wounde unattended.- Ing Rayter.
New York, November 23.
Novelist Pearl Buck today urged the United States to give immediate aid to all Chinese people, under whatever ideology, as the best means of shaping and influencing the "new govern- ment” in China.
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She said if no American aid was forthcoming "it will be supported and shaped by aid from Soviet Russia."
One People
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Writing in the December that government was not able to issue of the United Nations give them." World. a privately published magazine not sponsored by the UNO, the famed novelist termed the present "explosion in China" the same as took place quietly in England at the war's end and has "just taken place in the United States."
She said the Chinese people welcomed Chiang Kai-shek and gave him 20 years to prove his government could serve the people. She said: "Today they bro on the search.
, for what
Sweden Believes In Self-Defence First
New York, November 23.
Swadon's new Ambassador to the United States, Erik Boheman, said in New York tonight that Sweden would defend itself against any aggres- sion and that his country was examining with its Northern neighbours the possibility of mutual military aid.
FOR THE U.S.? In his first public address since his appointment, the
Mr
Washington, November 23.
The former Office of Price chief. Administration (OPA)
Chester Bowles, today hinted that he expected Presi- injured quartersdent Truman to ask the here are convinced that the Com-Democratic Congress for "selec- munist leaders will diasppointtive" price control and ration- the people equally, in time, with ing powers.
However,
mans
SERIES man weaknesses among his ad-
new
the same incompetence and un- The Democratic Governor- scrupulous methods. But tha
elect of Connecticut dropped the will not save the Nationalist re- hint as he left the White House gline, they did. They believe
after o visit to Mr. Truman. Chiang does not know about The chief executive carlier had .conferred with the chairman of ministrators and generals because his Council of economic advis everybody is afraid to tell him
hners, Mr. Edwin Nourse, and had the truth... and in cases where he instructed Mr. Nourse to bring Sevice Sales Distribution does learn of it he allows the nit administration agencles to weaklings to continue in offer
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Mr. Bowles
owles refused to com ment directly on his talk with Mr. Truman, but he predicted that the
administration "un. questionably would take ac tion to deal with inflation and pointedly suggested that ro- porters re-study recommenda tions previously made by Truman along that line.
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It would have to show the bene- nts which the people would get from ability to choose without Intimidation, their own govern- ment and to have freedom as in- dividuals and engage in free en- terprise..
They said people in the Unit. ed States and other democracies cherished deeply these values, In contrast to Communist regl
mantation, but they had made little affort to show the banafits
to wavering peoples elsewhere.
1 China falls to the Commun-
Mr.
Ambassador told the Swedish Chamber of Com- merce here that "we intend with every means at our disposal to defend ourselves and the de- agoinst a mocracy which we have built up . . . . possible aggression and against any encroach- ment from ideologies which are not ours.
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Only a superßcial mind saw in China today a struggle between two ideologies, she said: "It is a struggle ac by two but by one-
one is the people and that Chinn, as of the world, to emerge into a place where they can live. If Communlam
Coin- serves, munism may continue. It Com- munism too falls the
then people, the struggle will go on....
She warned K the United States persists in sending
ald only to "thore whom the people rejected" it must "send Ameri- ton armies to China to Aght those whom the Chinese Will not fight.....It might indeed be
of the beginning
World War
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She said there were two im-" madiate alternatives in the developments in China-a · new coalition Nationalist govern- ment or an entirely new group of victors. The latter would know little of how to organise government and if the "Urilted Staten purues
A short-sighted polley and re- fuses to accept an ideological agreement, Asia is lost to the West."
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construction ald actually repre- the new day." she concluded. ters."
approximately the same United Press. senta
as the grants under the Boheman said that after
the total war: "We were fully aware that Marshall Plan which will be the aftermath of a war of the spread over four years for the He added that the last United States. character and scope of one would make the world and when making this comparison: "I disregard the credit foreseen in uncertain especially Europe an place to dwell in for a long time.the Russian trade agreement. We consequently never disarmed and we have striven ever since within the limit of our restricted defence resources to keep our forces as modern and as effective as possible.
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Halifax, November 23.
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common determination to henceforth would be selective in for economic reconstruction." nature, with some prices going up while others went down.
Mr. Bowles remarks recalled that President Truman, in his economic report to Congress Inst January, called for "authority to impose rationing and prico control on
a highly basis."-United Press.
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Vienna, November 23.
The American film star, Joseph
Ists, said these sources, the Unit-Cotten, was arrested when walk-
the
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Mozart Platz in Central
the strategic upper hand in East Vienna last night. The Asla provided it controlled the mistook them for burglars who seas, with a good Navy, maintain- ed its superiority and kept the had just robbed a shop nearby.
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