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THE CHINA MAI MON DAY, DECEMBER 22, 1947.

"When we can no longer speak freely we'll fold up," is the philosophy of Randall Gould, Editor of Shanghai "Evening Post."

The Most Outspoken Critic Of Mismanagement In China

The same valce tha thundered, world's most wasteful military or criminatory and just plain stupid. He ‡full of 'able people, Chinese and for- against the Japanese in the 1930's is 1ganisation and does it by a process has had plenty to say for the many sign, who are simply asking to help thundering against Chinese mix of printing rather than collecting the honest and able Chinese administras in the job if Nanking would give innnagement and corruption today. In money.

rers in Nanking ami in political sub them half a chance.”

Clean Record

divisions. Mayor K. Wo, whe

has fought for

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Gould in no heavy-handed crusader. erican awered Shanghai Evening Post

encration of Shanghai against oddse ballfelong believer in editorial & Mercury and its old Ching-hand

How does Editor Gould and this | which anyone outside of China can pages and thinks they should Editor, Randall Gould, are still havfar-away organ of free U.S. journ. scarcely imagine, has had an innre written for reading. weightick ing their vigorous and sprightly say alisin get away with 1?

vigorous editorial zooting section than criticism is written with sprightly all matters from the China civil

Partly, Could admits, because it's Editor Gould and the people at the touch and an entertaining verve. His war to the folties of the Editor's cas,

voice of America, and Govern Post. Could has been equally quick readers frequently discover they have Buttercup,

ments, particularly in Asin, hestitate to champion ony Chinese official or been decoyed Into reading a 1,000- tommiffle-Americno editors much as net giving promise of leading Chisa word editorial on some aspect of the they might disapprove of what they got of his present economic and poli-world's travail and to have got 2

tical mora11.

Chandful of laughs out of is

སོཀཝཱདྡྷheན we can no longes speak freely we'll fold up," Gould said.

way.

Many foreign correspondents in China have grown extremely critical of the Chiang Kai-shek Gavernment that Gout and the. Post whopped the momentum at Nanking doring the years since V-Day Japs with every editorial club ther where), Kiaul! adopted thr Their dispatches appear thaavands | Imd in the '30' in spite of

of miles away and unly ecensionally. get back to China.

Fit Goul and the Post have cri tirised the Nationalist Government fearlessly and just de vigorously, iny ofter day, right under the muse of Nanking and throughust periods when Chinese papers of the

Plast

| vantious opposition were being up

pressed by garrison commanders.

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Tantly, Gould "comends, because Ever since the proposition of nav the Post has a clean record.

Gould puts out two solid double- The ing China by Joaning China lot of Chinese Government at remembers U.S.

inoney

began

Kathering columns of editorials daily, a (and elevuline for an eight to 10 page paper,

which highly Page

are frequently read before 1. The fare is leavened not only eight unpopular counterproposkion that any style of writing, but by humour

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Buttercup. which fair to become

a more animal than the rental

Gould also employs Strictly Business ralitorial quickie to keep the fare light. "Chiang Kai-shek's sop has help China-been selected to fight the economic "But I'm again battle in

witly Shanghai Whar

unsupervised loan to China is a dead Lilling. Editer Gould started early-laws which would probably dies ing a gun and kept right on spraking his mind. The garrison cummonders I recall that it took a war to stop the Past, | Post before, and they aren't reatly

alto go to much as extremte,

harm than good, and that China caudi

China will, help herself.

C. V. Star is owner of the He frequently visits Shanghai though his headquarters are in New York City. He crossed the paper mi his list of assets at the time of Pea Harbour and today lets the sirvival for suppression of the Pass he a res ponsibility of the Chines Ciovern inent, telling Gould simply to rim an honest forthright American

with due respect for Chinese law, Before the war they both lived Shanghai and were both

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Not Anti-Nanking

Editor Gould is one of 'twa Am-, cricans, who imin sport assuming that

"America arsel re," he says.

charity and that's what an ordieasy silver hullets?” loan would amount to. The peculiar conditions in China are not

in

Amrtica, t

stand

enough methods elsewhere of extending

cial help, means in China inevitably

The

Tokyo Quake

the bik

famous

British

giant thr

American editor, who can misappropriation of the money, disstake out a fair claim to being the sipation

of China since mnat the

free money, unconstructive voice use of the money, and are often de-

Chinese voices have been muffled trimental to the condues of Ameri- was born in Excelsior, Minn... in can and other foreign trade.

1898, went to school in Bozeman, Mont, and the University of Wis consin.

"We must approach the Chinese or they approach each other and us, on strictly business baxi with all tea- Lovable safeguards. Most of what we have already sent to China has been wanted has been worse than wasted, and that goes for loan, UNRRA and war surplus.

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Journalistically. Gould started he Chicago city news bureau, work- cd throughout the midwest and west and at Ionolulu, arriving in Japan in time for the 1923 earthquake, He

editor of the Japan

Times, поз Nippon Times, during the "China is not like Europe. She is quake and got out 1

hand. hand-net,

World Bank, Let China present

concrete

was news

Japan

in

war

of

their

the

big and potentially rich, and is in a powered paper for 10 days thereafter position to help herself, The ruten until

until electricity was restored. Ke best applicable for helping China held various new jobs in have been set up in the regulation of China and Manila before going to the Import-Export

aft Bank and the work for the Post-Mercury Co.

* 1929. He was on leave in New York and

pro-in 1941 and

Interament comprehensive

so excapei gramme, not a nebulous appeal; let

hit put use a

New York edition of Chino accept profer controls and the low-Mercury during the

. with due regard for her sovereignty which was sought by thousands

residents forced from some Usupervision. Anything Asia FRO cise is charity."

homes by war. He went to China's wartime capital of Chungking where How about A political-military he started another edition of loan? "That," retorts Gould, “is gor | Post-Mercury which closed after the a lozne's a gift which probably war and maved home to Shanghal. would be drastically missed the While he was in New York during Chinese people.the war he met the former Doraly detriments of the They wouldn't want supervision or Young, whn had worked for firms advice in is used. Advice is seldom and individuals with China connec- palatable to vested interests in China, tions, but who herself had never been and the army is the biggest vested in the Orient. They were marcfed, in Interest in China today."

1942 and Mrs. Gould i will trying to decide whether China lives up to her expectations, Gould has had two books published, "Chungking Today" in 1921 and "China In the Sun", in 1946.

The Alternative But what about the war with the Communists? What will happen if there is no loan?

In

"I still have complete faith "If the present situation continues China", Gould declares, "I believe i the prem in China is free. The other there will be mare

Communists' | China could move as rapidly toward

is John Pawell, whose China Weekly muccess further Nationalist disin malernity as did Japan, if she will Review magazine, has been no less tegration, there may he partition, just draw upon her resources. and critical of Nanking. Both have won there may be a return to some form churinova followings

for- of warlordian. But you aren't going

to stop, that with a loan,

eigners and Chinese,

anong

people-Chinese and foreign-and

get on with it. But she is on the wrong trock now. The country isn't

it

To say that Gould and the Pust "The alternative is reform, Give made which can spend four times as are' Badly auti-Nanking however, the people mure of a break and you'll much money on its Army alone would not be a fair statement. Gould he surprised how quickly Com- takes in through all sources of in- against those things in the muniam begins to lose it appeal. comes and takes up the slack With Chinese Government which he cha This situation can be got in hand, the siders wrong, unjust, -wastęfui, alis. [it isn't hopeless. And this country is Prek

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