1950-03-02 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1950.

AN ANGLO-AMERICAN POLICY

The impression is growing that, very slowly and very late in the day, an Anglo-Ameri can policy for Asia is coming into being. It is a policy which rises out of the wreck of the West's former policy in China. It is still being shaped, in America principally by Mr. Acheson; and as he labours at it, Mr. Acheson is constantly

COLONIAL REVOLT ALLEGED U.S. AIM

Washington, February 28. A Detroit businessman, today

quated State Department official as saying that President Harry Truman's Point Four programme is aimed ultimately nt creating revolt among colonial peoples.

Roy W. Gifford, retired chair- man of the Board of Borg-Warner International Corporation, attri- bated the slutenment to Benjamin Gerig, Chief of the State Depart- ment's Office of Depchdent Arcas* Allairs and Deputy U.5. repre- sentative on the UN Trusteeship Counc!!.

revolution. This is true whether the revolution is the result of a enuine popular upsurge or of the acizure of power by an unscru- pulous minority.

under fire from Congress and from all kinds of opposition interests. It cannot yet be taken as certain that this new policy will not be strangled at birth, or transformed. But if written, it may be said that the it grows to maturity, there real test of whether or not the should be a new hope for Asia, ¡ West had abandoned Imperialism

When the history of our times

By "WINDRUSH”

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sak why the same, zeal was not |

The

he new axis

West to come to Asia's uld, may・ London is inclined to post- It is too soon to know the shown by the West at a time when pono judgment about the ro come about as the result of the Tanswer Long-term alliances it was in secure polilleal control sults of the Eino-Russian | pressure of national interests. of Asia. The answer In the first place, the West has verdict is that they have end-past political difficulties between

In twofold. negotiations. There general The present negotiations

may have smoothed out many of the for a century been pumping capi- tal into Asia. This was reflected

ed in a notable, but provision-China and Russia. The Russians in, for example, the great railway al, success for Mao Tse-tung, may have gone out of their way and irrigation works in India. It la notable because Russia to show that they regard tho But unfortunately much of the material benents which resulted has agreed to surrender its Chinese as honoured allies, not as a puppet government to bo were swallowed up by the in privileges in Manchuria, and fordered about. But do the in- crease of population. The second part of the reply is that it in only

By "WINDRUSH" in the present yours-the years Mr. Acheson's eTTorts are

of the withdrawal of the West's Russia is not easily persuaded came over Taiwan. The demand watched with anxiety and admiro- that Americh should send milltary positif power at scene to disgorge privilege. It is tion in London. If his policy pre-aid to Chiang Kai-shek in Taiwan Invention has into men'a valls, Anglo-American co-opera-

which provisional because the agree. that hands the techniques by tion will present fow difficulties. America should interveno by material advance can be acce

It may be worth while trying force to check the Communiat lerated, so that it may keep ahead ment does not come into force revolution in China: The fact of the negativing effects of the until 1052 (It will become operative earlier if there is a refused increase of population. was

treaty with Japan; but the conclusion of a treaty is in present circumstances

was

In fact

demand

to doing the principles of the new policy, and then to see how that this demand -IL-will-work-out-in concreto-deshowed_that_America was sincere

tall.

in its renunciation of Imperialism.

The first thing to notice about the new policy in that it will not be opportunist. It will be based on clear principle. This is matter of great importance, for the West can only play a part in the Asta of the future it its poll- younger generation of the Aslan cies catch the imagination of the countries. Policles which

aro purely opportunist will never at- tract them.

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The new policy proceeds from the renunciation of Imperialism by the West. It is vital that it should be understood, both Asla and the West, what this renunciation implles. It means that the Western countries fore- ans go any intention of using force to try to influence internal events "This_mat." Mr. Gifford told-in-Asian-countries the

Senate Foreign Relations Committee, "said the object of the Point Four programme is to develop the colonial backward

areas of the world until they car revolt against their mother coun- tries,"

Mr. Gerig was not avaliable The State here for comment. Department said he is attending a UN meeting, in Geneva.-

Mr. Truman has asked Con- gress to approve. a, Point Four project Involving governmental technical assistance and private Anancing to develop the economy of backward world areas. It is part of the drive to check Com- munism.

Mr. Gifford said Mr. Gerlg's re- mark was made last June at a Foreign Affairs seminar sponsored by the Brookings Instituta at Lako Forest College, near Chicago,

"I challenged Mr. Gerig's state- ment at

open session of 'the an seminar," Mr. Gifford testified. "I told him I did not believe thut was the Slate Deportinent's policy.

"But he stood by, his guns and said it was.”—Associated Iress.

Primate urges pact on bomb

The implications

over

But if the Western countries refuse to contemplate any force ful interventions in internal Asian affairs, that does not mean that they will stand passively by while Communism swe 11 Asia. Their plan is to maintain with the non-Communisi economic and cultural relations

coun- tries of Asia which will, it is hoped, strengthen these Govern- ments, and re’uće the likelihood of their beir overturned by Communist re lution. There is nothing sinister or Machiavellian in a

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a plan of this kind. The West puts all its cards on the table. It believes that, if countries operate with goodwill, if capital from the West is made available to the East, and if the technical skill of the West is also put at -the-disposal-of-the-Asian-coun- tries, there can be an economic advance in Asia which will end the age of poverty and frustra- The implications are very fartion. To aid the Eastern Gov- reaching. They must be faced.

ernments to bring their peoples Among these implications one is

to an entirely new standard of Hving is the West's reply to Com- perhaps especially weighty. It there should be a Communist re-

munism, volution in any Aslan country, the Western powers, having re- nounced all use of force in in- ternal devolopments, will not be able to step in and reverse the

A question

Young men in Asia, noticing cynically the new duterest of the

bo

"Eventually the techniques will the property of all mankind. There is nothing secret about them. They belong to industrial civilisation as a whole, But in present circumstances it is only the Western countries. which posscas these scientiae techniques. in an exportable condition.

very likely.)

not

tho

This provisional nature of agreement is perhaps the significant thing about it. For most What the world wants It leaves the world still guessing. know is whether, i Aslan matters, there is to be a Moscow-Peking axis. It must be admitted that there

If this is to be a continuing fea- has been a good deal of loose and

ture in international affairs, It very exaggerated optimism about requires that, at the Peking end these economic plans. The prac- there should be a continuing on- tical details have still to be work- thusiasm for Russia. It in fu- ed out. A first effort is to bo

ture event, not the present trea- made in the the Spender Plan

show ty, which will

whether which resulted from the Com-Russia can keep the loyalty of monwealth Conference at Colom- the Chinese Communists. bo. Throughout the world, capi- tal is in ever shorter supply. And, even capital can bo made available for Asia, It will need very careful planning to ensure-that-it-does-ils-fructifying--what-rankles work.

This is a reason for maintain- ing a sober caution. It is not a reason for pessimism. There is little doubt that by economic co- operation between the West and the non-Soviet countries of Asia, an economis advance can be begun which will be more rapid than anything proviously itnown in the Eastern world.

A danger

Thus

Mao Tse-tung and his colica- gues are true Communists. They Lon- are also true nationalists. don has learned enough about Chinese matters to know -that

in the

Chiness mind is the memory of the

A Chinese Gov- equal treaties. ernment, whatever the political parties out of which it is pounded, will struggle to protect China's national interesta. the now

Chinese Government from the very start of its exis tence has had two interests to socialise China, and to reassert China's sovereign rights in the most comprehensive way possl. ble.

In the past, Russia has been the outside power of which China

was most afraid.

Both Russia and China are land Em- For any programme of this

pires, Traditionally China has kind, the executive arm must be been more anxious about the that of the Asian countries. The gradual absorption of West has realised fully that this territory by Russia than about is one of the consequences of the

from the aggression

maritime rise and triumph. of ́. Asian no- powers. It felt that the attacks tionalism, The

from the martime powers now programme

were is to be one

transitory. of collaboration be-

them Time caused tween Eastern governments

to slacken,

But the threat British troops with walkie-talkie radios are today Western capital and technique. from Russla was permanent.

in control of the African' section of Asmara,

The West will not any more pre- Monchuria, Singkiang, Mongolia, tend to take over the actual

North China, were all threatened. now quiet after last wook's riots.

executive functions in the East. can advise: but it will not ad- Asmara and has heard, state-minister in a political sense. ments from local supporters of both independence and union with Ethiopia.

British troops in

control of Asmara

Asmara, February 28,

They wired off the African market area and only admitted worsen to buy food.

The curfew, which was impos ed as a total curfew at the height of the Christian-Moslemn rioting, was lifted for the hours of day light.

the

It

and

One Anal problem is receiving anxious attention in the West. If this now programme is to be ac- with the aims and interests of the rising classes and forces in Orien-

Too soon for

the answer

1

their

forests of the two countries co- incide enough ta mako long-term collaboration likely?

London is inclined to dwell on

two considerations, the first eco- nomic. If China.ls-to-be-mo

Govern- dernised, the Chinese ment must set afoot very expoN- sive capital works-in transport,

Irrigation,

Industry electric power, perhaps eventually atomic Dower

From whero! ip tho capital for this to come? As the result of the present negotia $300,000,000, spread over a Ave tions, Russia is giving a-loun of

year period. The sum is paltry. It will be swallowed up In the It maw of China's huge needs. contrails strangely with the sum of $3,000,000,000 which Great Britain, in spite of all its dif]- culties, has invested in South Asia in the past two or

three years.

Need for capital

to

IMP2

to

Russia, even if it wished give more substantial ald Communist China, has not the

do

on

to

means

30. Capital throughout the world is in short supply. Theoretically China should be able to raise capital from its own people by imposing them forced savings. This was the way in which Russia, with little capital borrowed from abroad, financed its own tran- sportation; and the Chinese leaders have expressed their ad- miration for this achievement

and say that they will take Rus- sla ng their modal, But low as was the standard of life in Rus- sia, it was not nearly s low as in China. An attempt to im- pose forced saving on China will result in famine and misery a terrible scale.

on

On

The second consideration which London is reflecting is the of Japan. How will Chinese Japan develop? There at least the possibility that it may end by going Communist. In some ways, a Communist Japan might prove a more useful ally to Rus- sta than Communist China. But what, if a Moscow-Tokyo alllan- ce should come into being, will happen to Sino-Russian rela tions?

The Communist leaders, in their speeches, have expressed confidence that, once 0 truly

It heard several villages' dele- ceptable to Asia, It must coincide / Communist, government was es-

gations of Unionists, indepen- dence supporters and others, who all rejected partition and urged the possibility of

peaceful lite

between the Moslem" and Chris- than communities and the accep- tance of Italian and other 'com- munities provided they kept out of politics.

Some Coptle shops are reopen- ing, but the streets are still liter- ed with debris from the disorders and looting-rags, empty contn- York, March 1. iners and

and half-burned doors, The Archbishop of York, Dr.

At the second day of the Erit-

Ras Tesemma, a prominent in Cyril Garbelt, today urged Bri- rean Administration inquiry into tain to open hydrogen bomb A. W. Payne, said Unionist, claimed that many

riots today

dependence leader, whose son is a British police that on Tuesday, when a Moslem Independence Party members are funeral procession reached theatraid to give their views because African sector, Eritrean Copts of intimidation by pro-Ethiopian tossed hand-grenades and stones Shifta bands.--Reuter.

it. This action made the Mos- lems aggressive,

talks with Russia if the United States-could-not-do-s0,-

·He proposed as an alternative if an agreement could not be renched- solemn covenant of peace-loving

democratic and peoples to

all resources usc against any nation using these bombs and a declaration that nel- ther singly nor collectively would they ever be the first to use the bomb.

"Agreement or destruction is the choice before us," the Arch- bishop declared in his Diocese leaflet published today. "It is now uncertain if the human race will be granted many more years for amendment. It is difficult to see how, President Truman could have refused to allow the making of this bomb in the United States it Russia is making it.

"Now, while there is time, either an agreement must be rea- ched or, if this fails, means to deter a possible aggressor must be found. If nothing is attempted the human race drifts towards its certain doom.

"Agreement or destruction Is the choice before us," the Arch- bishop added-Reuter.

RECORD RICE CROP REPORTED

Bangkok, February 28. Record rice, yields in Malaya and Southern Slam will make possible's the lifting of restric tions on movement of rica from Southern Slam into Malaya' by the end of this month, the Com merce Ministry announced. «E

Several Blass Bouthern MP's

at

He said that 200 Copts came out of their village and on the nearby plain fought with the Moslems.

des.

throwing hand grena-

When the police intervened, the Copla retreated, taking their casualties with them, and promptly obeyed police orders.

come

The only sensible

course for the Western countries is to re- cognise that the advent of the Communist Government in China is one of the events changing the course of political history. At least

In Eastern Asia the

Jaitia-

the

tive rests with Peking. If the tablished in China, Russia would

West wishes to contribute to the rectify what was one-sided in its tal society. The West would

development of affairs In relations with China. The tradi-

Far East, it must do so in colla- have offered its

tional struggle between these capital and

boration with Feking. Between two land Empires would technique in vain if it drifted into collaborating with Eastern

Feking and the West there is a to an end. Bound together by certain coincidence gov-

their common ideology, the two

of interest: the West could supply ernments which, though indepen- dent, were not in harmony with

governments would blot out, the

part of the capital so unjustly needed by danger which the the movements of the age. The regrettable past, And indeed, as

This is a facet in the the result of the present

nego❤ West must

eituation: It is emphatically not avoid is of backing up govern-

tiations, the Chinese, leaders can a suggestion that the attempt ments which are so reactionary

ary perhaps claim that their CUTI-

should be made to buy China's that they end by discrediting the fidence, was justified. West itself. Some people fed

friendship, and lure Itaway. Does this mean that the Sino- from its Russian alliance, Russian axis will now ba that America has already endanTM | Russ

the The governing fact in all re- gered its moral credit by sup-centre round which all the poll-flection must be that, when the tics of 'Asia will revolve? Af the porting Dr. Syngman Rhee in

Jargest view is taken, the inter- Korea. Others are unhappy about end of the war a very different

ests of the outside world would ATTACK ON TRAIN the support given to Bao Dal in axis was generally contemplated. be served bast

Indo-China.

As long as 11 Washington Nanking

axis.

China remains economically In This to have been the centre of Its present condition, it is the Asian reconstruction It broke festering centre of international because

broke

Is the trouble. Nobody can see events now to be su- more than a very few weeks or axis with stained by Russia - Iristead of months ahead, But it would America? If so, the West has be a sound instinct which said lost the initiative in Asia. that the world as a whole stood profound change will come over to gain from bringing into being Asian affairs, and Indeed over

a less poverty-stricken and more world affairs.

stable. China.

Calcutta, February 28. Armed ralders killed aight people and wounded 17 others when they attacked the Assom mail train near

Santabar, East Bengal, today.

An East Pakistan communique The United Nations Com said that casualties included some mission, which is now studying Moslems, Armed guards, which the future of Eritrea, has visitnormally escort all trains, have ed a number of villages around | been strengthened-Reuter,

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