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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1955.
"Good morning, your Majesty." London Express Service
SEFTON DELMER'S PACIFIC NEWSMAP
Chiang's Ambitions Being Curbed
M
Y congratulations to President Eisen-
hower for his firm. ness over the Formosa crisis .....and to the Common- wealth Prime Ministers for their courage in putting Formosa at the top of their. agenda.
Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Britain--all have a vital interest in the security
of the Pacific. They do not wish to see that security threatened by any more of the Pacific passing ander the Iron Curtain.
•
Don't doubt thai if the Americans were to withdraw thair protection and permit Formosa to pass under Com- manist control it would con- stitute a most deadly blow to the safely of the whole Pacifle
to Australia fall area right down and New Zealand.
I REMEMBER -way back in 1948 FORMOSA in Communist
AS
for
American Bases
into Communtsis.
"It Formosa
A great thing this, if it means, as I bellove It does, that the Americans are now determined to curb their trigger-happy allies in Yor- mosa.
Ever alneo the Korean war first gave Chiang and hla Old Guard their chance they have been trying everything to stampede the Americans and ourselves. Into a
Chinza war with which would put them back
That period is done with new.
in power.
quarrel
if there is to be
with China, we
can be sure it will not be caused
by Chiang's at
emp ed reconquest but by Communist China's threats
to our own interests.
And hero let MA
give
Don't
our watchful polley-makers
Д
further thought.
let us concentrate our at
the cations in the Pacific exclusive-
of the hinds
not that we need * a baso for out-
cannot eelves but we simply allow an enemy to hold it," 1 remember him saying.
"it would be a most danger ous penotration of our whole defence system in the Pacific, and undo the achievernents of
hand
base Chinese and Soviet forces, would plercs through that American protective belt of bases stretch ing from the north
of Japan right down through Okinawa the war." and the Philippines.
ly on Formosa.
DANGER
in Indonesia
a
LAURTHER south there is
strategie land group just
as Important as Formosa to our safety and that
the of Australiana.
At the time that was a most
This group the former Dutch important piece of information. East Indies, now colled Indo-
Americans weed to find the for me. Up to then I was not at nesia-is in imminent danger of
As long ago as November 1948 { was their minds about this.
General Douglas MacArthur told me the United States could never afford to ket the island
HERE'S A JOB
taken
over by
tha
all sure that it would be the
being quite clear in American view,
Communists. back: ta I had just Bown Tokyo after watching tho
They have already succeeded American advisory mission, that in penetrating the government, trained Chiang Kai-Shek's the administration,
THAT MOUNTBATTEN MIGHT DO WELL
HAVE advice for
Earl Mountbatten, who,
in a few weeks' time,
becomes First Sen Lord.
Before he settles down at
By Ian Colvin
→
For a situation has arisen might deem his equals. about Gibraltar which will
balconics
his
Spanish
on trades unions.
get out of Naoking Dany, the mainland. "This is the end of American help for Chiang," a disgusted American colonel had told me.
"Even If he establishes him- self in Formosa we shall never
for him be able to build up again the material vre, are leaving behind here."
and the
My latest information from
nt Indonesia is that they are lenst preparing to hold a gtuneral election there.
08 is And in this election, the custom in corrupt and choo
of cally run oriental States this idrid, the election machico
other has been carefully rigged. Amit
to
And almost all the American officers I spoke gavo up the Chiang Kai-shek Chinese with the same shrug of frustration
PIANOS-
Instead of guns
Dulles to make a quite painlessT COULD not blame them. Even reappraisal of policy two years ago,
ut the moment of that evacua- tion, when it was essential that' all the military supplies possible should be getting to Formosa, I noticed that the Chinese air-
craft carrying out the evacua lion were loaded not with guns but with grond planes.
After long negotiations he signed defence treaty with
of NATO, his Admiralty desk let him Let us first recall that a private the crimson and gold tapestries Franco. Although Spain is still the not a member Armada can today take part in pay a flying visit to see what has been carried on by of Castile from the
the Foreign Once against and windows of Madrid.
the sea-air exercises of the for nine yenra past.
Is the U.S. Navy accept- is going on at Gibraltar, and Franco
And what a vivid clash of U.S. Fleet. then go to Madrid and Labelling him as an unfriendly
It would be! Fer
But obstinately Sir Anthony Ing any more grand plande for
from transport
the Tachen upstart, it has carefully isolated personalities pay a formal call on Generalm from contact with any Bri- skill in fencing, for güb and Eden held to the aloof course
In the latest Chiang charm, for mobility that had been set for him by Islands Francisco Franco.
tish personalities whom he persuasive
He evacuation? I doubt it. and sheer glitter these two are his Socialist forerunners. superbly matched,
did nothing affective to keep
This Chiang retreat under Britain and America in step on
American protection is a signi- Mountbatten himself can have
ficant pointer to the new.. turn about their Spanish polky. по doub's whatever
Today, with American miliin American China policy. Gibraltar. There nothing tary aid, the Spanish ring
the The Americans, despite claim to with a queue of dull and that can be given eway, and no based round
H'S
Gibraltar grows
of their numerical inferiority about that. necessity to talk He has
question
Pacifle air force to the Chinese There is no
of an
at the moment, could have American type lense either.
to hold. helped Chiang islands if they had wanted to.
That Eisenhower has made him
give
them up means just!
demand his closest attention
as Head of the Navy.
It is n
Slighted
year since Franco IS official contacts have been
formal stated his Gibraltar
and offered to lease shuffling ambassadors:
been slighted or ignored.
it back to us as a
gorgeous
For
stronger.
On her own
as a base. Не made a protest in London before the Queen visited the Imagine, then, the impact on What, then, has pushed Franco in his undignified policy and so for Rock on her Empire tour. After Franco of this that both the British and the gold-brated figure. What could of asking for the Rock? Spanish authorities took security be more stimulating to second the answer to that we must look Su
British Foreign measures to prevent an incident thoughts about Gibraltar than again to the
an encounter with the powerful Office, during the royal visit.
mand?
Mediterranean
com-
Guilty partner
the Tthe end of
of
UCCESSIVE British Ambas- sadors have come and gone
the
Preskignt
in Madrid. Their private instruc-one thing: that the tions have been unaltered-theys at last put a stopper on
Chiang's dangerous and un are to be in no hurry to im-
realistic dreams of winning back the prove their standing with
China with an invasion launch- regime.
ed from advanced faland bases like the Tachens.
And out of those measures, admiral who beg fast given up which have been only partially the top lifted.
state of creeping blockade has
Spaln Brisen. withdrew its consulate from Gibraltar in. April, before the com gat six other admirals to
the row his barge, with a U.S. ad laid down that Franco Queen's visit. As a result people of Gibraltar must apply mirni as stroke oar, is not one should be excluded from
In whose worde would be lightly United Nations, And Franco American to the Spanish Consulate
the Supremo of was to be shows, with what skill, Spain goes ahead on her London for visas to enter Spain, heeded by
British over documents could be found own. Spain.
to prove it, as the gulity part- alighter there today than at any ner of the Axis Powers.
first WO
war an commander-in-chief who A Anglo-American policy was slighte A
Ban imposed What clse is there about
land either.
The resulting omissions,
and pinpricks would Spain All a catalogue. And what has
net
With result? finance and German
the
the been
time
since
Influence
held
Mountbatten that would help to
The documenią were dazzle Franco? He is a great
not Gibrallar. But Mr Ernest with DUT because Franco has im- aristocrat
out there Ambassadors go royal connor sensational. BUT
£3,250 and posed a ban on other muka tions. He has a liking for lordly Bevin had stern views about with salaries of
France. His officials in the £7,500 in tax free allowances. from the garrison visiting Spala sports such sense of splendour Foreign Onice supported fun be. They find themselves receiving both citizens and officers have He has a
for broken decided not to visit the main and pageantry. He has the cause they had on artful second Spanish: choques
Spain, British windows. grand manner and yet the Ruent thought-an unpopular On the Spanish labour force, approach. He is without doubt with a stigma laid on it, would
Where British diplomacy 'falls, going to and from the dockyard, marvellously at caso when not dare to clamour for Gibral
up the the Navy often clears- Franco keeps a watchful eye. abroad and when dealing with Lar..
recommend the And the Spaniards have crected high and rare foreign person thoughts in its postwar policy adroit Mountbatten for a quiet
America, had no such second mess. So an iron gate at the end of the ages. causeway, depriving the Colony For him, as an honoured on Spain. And so it was talk with the of access to half a mile of no- guest, Franco would hang out possible. man's-land.
There is no need for alarm.
We are not going to lose Gibral
for Mr John Foster dictator.
tar to Spain, but we can lose 6)
"WHITE ISLANDS"
much of its strategic usefulness
to us if we are not friendly
with Spain, That fact is clear,
Not happy
I is clear, too, that at this
I was there has b
By JAMES IRVINE
world's senior
IN WAR
Frankfurt. when his wife, who was ex- The British and the Americans comes again to pocting a baby, said she was have not eald yet what they think
worrfod about anottier war abous it. 4 coming.
Neither have the Iron Curtain an leland un-; "I have found the answer countries. France. Nobody In Whitehall touched by war, a refuge for he says now.
time we can only achieve friendship with Spain through place
There would be no
no world
is anxious to break the ice with women and children, the old anybody whose name has been leader of the organisation, Herr the Spanish, dilatator. He has
long
Sit: Anthony
*ted in
advance, and who has Zimper ankh. For it Mr Eisen- no war dulles can go and live howor caine out in favour, that the gaudy target for and the stelt. all our political
Who will pay rounded not by seabut by Herr Zimmer admitted there
would be plenty for apollostions withens and the rich, Gibraltar deadlock on to Mr war
Imbecause there arớt at people have gone Alán Leinox Boyd The This is the idea of a people afraid of another wars but they are shape Colonial Becretary is not happy
With the Ahite : . island,"" · sur-, or a white islari Pakatan patefab put on " Malenkov Qarrollar.
with It The Army would be simple little book salesman," 1 Ho, and hit thousand, frotube and open a do heartily ad not to meddle with 60-year-old Hans Zimmer, of tary, helpore" have sent & blues. they places this problem, like the Royal Frankfurt, jak dream)2. Nỗ. Pring
End
Navy that is mo vitally He thinks he can really doors or so have weiden,
kerrated in Chil
ROWLOON.
moet to loss
No
Yes, it may be more
to chock tho penetration of Indonesia by the Communists than to save Formosa from Peking. One more problem for the Commonwealth Ministers to contemplate. one well worthy of President Eisenhower's thought as well.
Prime And
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