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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

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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-

mary Western bastion 9xgina stain went so far as to forbid any possible Boviot aggression would member of his crow to, take lier

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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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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.

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