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U.S. POLICY IN CHINA Washington Faced By Difficult Questions RELATIONS WITH REDS
Washington, May 12:
In trying to decide what its attitude shall be toward the victorious Chinese Communists, the United States Government faces one of its most difficult political and economic questions of the post-wór erg.
With Communists in impending control of China's largest city of Shanghai, focal point of Chinese trade and business relations with the Occidental world, the problem of what type and what extent of relations shall be maintained with the new, regime becomes urgent,
One thing appoors roatanably contatriere: Whataver decision is made by the United States Administration there will be thosa, who feel it is the wrong.
ono. This is because. United States The degree of Russian Govern- expert oplaton has long been and ment collaboration with Mao Tse- still remains split between the tung has not yet become clear. interventionist school, which Some, experts think that May and says that a large part of China his colleagues might resent too can still be salvaged for democracy much
Russian
"interference" in if America is willing to expend their affairs and reject it. Among Americans of this persuasion få
equally
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Expert's Thesis
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In Japan to make it worth walio as yet unknown, The recent attacks on British warships in the Yangtse appear to indicate they think i would. But these attacks may not have begn authorised by the
scatíor com- Įmund, or they may have been in-
(to be continued on a large scale.
U.S. Help Unlikely
the money and materia dedFrederick Moore, a former Ameri- feliçutive of a one-shot pulley net cynlly determined Broup by the United States Secretary can advisee is the pre-war Jup- of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, anese Government and a recognis- which believes that further ated For Eastern expert. tempts to Government will be useless, but who still insist It is the only Government with which they are al present prepared to deal.
Talks with State Department China
experts on this subject are at present rather unproductive and have led many United
Iri
nrticle,
Mr
Meanwhile, Communist Kuc- censes should not obscure the fact that South of the Yangtse River a moguzhne
there exists a natural mountain. Moore emphasised: "Aslu is to defence line behind which a farge conglomerate a continent for any
remains portion of country to conquer or control. free of Communist control. It is His thesis is that if Russia at-the same area, roughly, whiel tempis full-scale "consolidation" held
the Japanese conquerors during the four years of World War I
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Congressmen and private citizens China under native Commun- to the reluctant conclusion that the Department has still in fact
self while." However, he also said Ist auspices she will "bleed her- that continued full scale United
China lill
out against
With strong American support, delivered quickly and unstinting-
no firm China policy but is try States intervention against Coin-ty, some highly qualified experts ing desperately to make one. Iz
munlam there could have the here think this area can still be this quest, the Department
kept free.
been and understandably hamper-same result for America.
Whether the Communists It is considered that there is
ed by the rapid march of military
events there, which have produc-
e no firm situation on which
decisions could intelligently
be
fact
based beyond the obvious that the Communists have been winning the "war.
The result may well be that preliminary "relations" of the United States Government and private business representatives with Mac Tse-tung and other. Communist leaders will be de termined by events and the exigencies of individual altua tions as they arles
States
Cues Expected
to
have decided that a policy of less than an even chance that the maximum hostility to Western | Administration will decide powers in China will ́yleid di- make the attempt. despite strong vidende enough In terms of Congressional sentiment in favour "lost face" and embarrasament' of 11.—-United Press.
Don Iddon's Diary
(Continued from Page G)
Well, the women and their hus- bands and their children (who have never looked loveller despite the drab diet) are sick to nausea of controls, regulations, red tape. and bureaucratie barricades.
They are tired of fogns, docu- ments, ration cards, and regula-
As an example, it is pointed out that although the Vaited Honory rubbish.
Leighton Ambassador, Stuart, has been called home for consultation," American Consular Officers will presumably remain in
China,
as will many United States businessmen and mission- arics.
discussed, and usually in flatter- ing terms.
It has become a sort of family business now we are mixed up together, as Mr. Churchill said
we would be. In fact, in my view. we are Tolned to ape you, too much. Some wonderful English pubs are being ruined by the raucous intruslan of juke-boxes and fluorescent lighting. The spivs think it is smart to be a sort of super Yank,
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1949.
BERLIN RETURNING TO NORMAL
Berlin, May, 12.
Laughing, singing Germans, pgraded flag-decked Berlin today cheering the arrival of trains and food convoys from the West as the city began to return to normal after ita 10- month, blockade.
Опсе more traffic flowed freely across the sector boun dries, where up to midnight East and West German police had searchod all passangers for contraband.
Bohool children were on holiday for the day, work stopped in most factories and shops allowed workers to at- tend rival demonstrations in Eastern And Western sectors. Overhead Anglo-American airlift planes continued to aři Five at 90-second intervals with supplies to bulld up1 food stocks.Router.
HK Bound Sergeant's Dockside Farewell
Liverpool, May 12. Trooping rules were relaxed last night to allow a sergeant sailing for Hong Kong to say. a deckside farewell to his wife. of a few hours.
Half an hour before he was due to leave with the 1st Battal- ion, Royal Leicestershire Regi- ment to embark in the troopship Empire Halladale, Sergeant Her- bert Chariton, aged 20, was' mar- riód ut the Leicester Register Office to Fraulein María. Hein, aged 24, who llew to England from Germany last Monday.
After the ceremony the bride- groom went straight back to bar- racks. The bride waved farewell as he left by train for Liverpool.
Several hours latter, however, Do the Sergeant was stowing away his equipment aboard the ship he was, told he could go aahore and any farewell to hla wife.
Marla had been given a lift by car from Leicester to Liverpool by a sympathetic Army Malor. Reuter.
Sound Waves
· To Kill Bacteria
Flying Boat At The Tower Bridge
The Short. Solent, Britain's biggest commercial flying- boat, taxies under, the raised Bascules of Tower Bridge on its The, 35-tan, 39- way to mooring at Tower Wharf, London. passenger, twin deck craft alighted at Greenwich Reach' and taxled into the capital where it was named "City of London" by. the Lord Mayor (6ir George Aylwan)). (AP) Photo),
NEW AGREEMENT'S EFFECTS ON SINGAPORE TRADE
London, May 12.
Mr. Walter Fletcher, Opposition Conservative, con. tested in the House of Commons today the Gov- ernment view that entrepot trade with Singa: pore is not prejudiced by the trade agreement recently concluded with the Netherlands.
He asked the
Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade, Mr. John Edwards, for an as- surance that in concluding the agreement, providing for expand- ed trade with Indonesia, care to ensure that the was taken sale of goods froin Britain und stocked in Singapore is not pre- judiced by the agreement.
Segregation Of Negroes To Go
Mr. Edwards replied: "Yes. My
Washington, May 12. Negro personnel will be dis- department are well aware of the importance of the traditional en-tributed throughout the United
States trepot trade' with Singapore."
Air Force instead of serving in special units, under by the trade agreement recently by the Defence Secretary, Mr. "This trade is not prejudiced a new policy approved today concluded with the Netherlands. Louis Johnson.
"On the contrary, it is doing
to trade," Mr. Fletcher replied.
the entrepot
Other Causes
I believe the Socialists have The party is able, young, vigorous. lost ground during the past year.
And your Mr. Danny Kaye is and maybe. ruthless, but no one laying them in the aisles and seems to love it. Somehow to me setting off mass Hero-worship. Socialism seems un-British. I can- met him the other day and fount not explain this feeling, but there him
Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, amiable and unspoiled.
May 13. it fo. The country is recovering Everyone here seems to adore
Sound waves are being stu- The Communist disposition as despite the Government not be him. to continued Chinese-American cause of it.
died here as a To get back to more serious and bacteria in milk or water with
way of killing trade, their attitude toward
As for the Conservatives, they important matters. American financed enterprises fure stil) floundering, and the best There are far less jitters here out using heat or chemicals. such as the Shanghai Power Com can tip them tor is to make a
than the US. I have heardThe sounds are of extremely pany and related matters, is ex-drow.
almost no war talic and no "pre-high frequencies, far beyond the
great harm These sweeping generalisations ventivo" war talk. Russia is dis- range of human hearing. If the pected to soon
to soon become apparent to these men.
will probably infuriate members trusted, even disliked, but there, method works, it might
eliminate These attitudes in turn are ex-of both parties, but this is a-per-
is not a sign of a war scare.
use of chlorine or other chemicals that kill bazterin in water but pected to furnish valuable cues sonul letter, even if it is for pub-
leaves a
Laste
it. Or In
milk 10 both United States and Eurg-lication also.
About America, Bob, my friend,
might be sterilised without chang- pean nationals as to what their future courses should be. Finally, am sorry to inform you that
And there is less of a psycholoing its flavour by heating.
Such oilk might be. stored the reciprocal "attitudes" of both not many people I have talked sides may evolve into recognised and listened to and there have gical stump than in New York.
without need for keeping it cool. been hundreds-have real appre Money, is scarcer people are not Government "policies."
The research is being done by clation
Marshall Plan. buying many clothes, even though the University of Illinois' College of the It is an accepted fact: In the They are very vague about it. they are off the ration: expérisive conduct of mo
of modern world affairs They welcome the dollars and are restaurants are not crowded, but
of Agriculture and the Illinois State Water Survey. No report- that there can be a considerable grateful in a dim, bemused way. there is no depression' in men's ble results are expected for at this particular amount of trade, in nations money. Is coming out of the poc
cultural and
and but few seem to realise that the spirits.
The British are confident that least another year Associated other Intercourse
country they can, and will, weather any- aven in the absence of formal di-kets of you and your
thing. This island has undergone There is no passionate "Thank too much to be scared by any you. Antierten," resounding in the man-made crisis. It is indestruc- English air, though a lot of people tible. have said we would be sunk with-
of
plomatic recognition. This was men. somewhat the case during the
occupation aLunicse churia, where United States Con suls remained and commercial re Jationships with
word
America maintained, up la the uma of Pearl
Harbour, although to
No Depression
Yours as ever.
but
Its people are the salt of the out the European Recovery Plan, earth not merely stalwart,
"Don't worry about this. And zuperb. I assure you of that. remember also that if any true Don't ask your Dad. Tall "your secounting were over made Bri- Uncla Sam, United States did not of course lain would not owe a soul a sou recognise the Japanese Gover-fin view of her lonely deflance of ment's sovereignty there.
Hitlerism when the rest of the world was elther shattered or Talk Of US
Raw Materials For Japan. shying off.
Some experts here fes-that
given an amicable attitude on America, of course, is very the part of the Chinese Com. much in the news
.munlat Government, an
here, and never go anywhere without hear-
rangement of that type mighting your people and your country
ultimately evolve with Rid
China. However, it Commúnisl
officials should Inaugurate
Immediate "purget of Western Femme Fatale
business Interakta, in China agg
ring down
.
an Iron curtain'
similar to that in Europe, thia'
of course could not come to pass.
OF RAF
She became known
London, May 13.
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the
There is reason to bellove that femme fatale of the bomber the United States officials-mbat squadrop." closely connected with Japanese Dr. D. Stafford-Clark, wartime occupation, problema, hope that medical officer with the Royal some economic modus vivendi tan Air Force, tells her story in an be developed with Chino's ericle on "Flying Stress" In the
munists, at least to the extra of Journal of Mental Science. making available
raw, materials Ah attractive young officer in for Japan's factories. Otherwise the Womia's Auxiliary Air Force aome experts, are dublous as to (WAAF) got dates, with many of how Japan
can
survive as an the tyers in the squadron. Then oven moderately
one day they stopped. industrialised nation.
Two men she had been However, from a Communist with had got killed on an opera- standpoint, a reluctance to supply Clerk told You're a Jinx (bad luck). You carry the
the factories of a nation goneral-kiss of death."
ly
presumed
to by one of the Dri-
DON.
Just Arrived
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BOY'S FALL OVER CLIFE
Bridlington, May. 12. Bridlington rescue workers have recovered the body of Eric Little, aged 15, of olderness Road, Hull, who was killed when, he fell over a 400 feet high elf-Reuler.
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The doctor wrote:" "Ozie Cap-
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be understandable. But if us out on pain of expulsion from the zlan markets for Manchurian raw
materials should prove
glad of a Western outlet.
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VANS CO.,
There was no point in adding next to Alhambra Theatre, Tol, 57475, Nathan Road, Kowloon
quale, the Communists might be to the class, he said." —B44olated
Pres
"Surely the Parliamentary Beeretury is aware that re- presentations have been made to him by Chambers of Com merce, both native and Euro
pean".
Mr. Edwards did not agree, that agreement had added to difficulties of the entre pot trade which, he said, are due to other causes.
Mr. Johnson said that he had received Army and Navy propo sals along the same lines, but had usked for qualifying Information before making any decision on them.
that
said Air Force officials under the new. Air Force polley, Negroes wil he assigned on the Lasis of individual capacity. Some separate Negro units will remain in existence.
The Air Force has 21,020 Negro, officers. servicemen, including This figure comprises "reven" per. cent of the Air Force strength. Mr. Fletcher said he is dis- Mr. Johnson added that Negm satisfied with the Government's personnel Haruughout the reply, and will raise, the matter Force, will be screened by their again-Reuter.
respective Commands.-Reuter.
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