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DECEMBER 6.1945
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE SEVEN
How Far Should Foreigners Go In Solving China's Internal Strife?
BY LOUISE F. KEEMLE
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
The civil war in China has caused not only a diplomatic upset in Washington. It has raised the graver question of how far foreign intervention should go in trying to solve China's internal strife.
The resignation of Patrick J. Hurley as United States ambassador to China and appointment as his successor of such a key figure as Gen.
George C. Marshall, late chief of staff of the army, should go a long way toward clarifying American policy.
Pending such clarification, there is a sharp division of opinion in American diplomatic, congressional, and public thought. The following three courses are advocated with equal warmth:
TWO. The United States should withdraw all troops, transports, and military supplies, leaving it to Chiang's central government and the Yenan Communists to reach a solution without outside intervention.
ONE. The United States should go all the way in supporting Chiang Kai-shek's fight to "unify" China by force of arms, short of actual fighting by the American military.
The first policy appears to have been followed so far by the United States, without open objection by Russia. In fact, the latest Chung-kings reports indicate Russia is supporting the central government to the extent of agreeing to facilitate its occupation of Manchuria in accordance with the Soviet-Chinese treaty.
THREE. An effort should be made by the outside powers, led by the United States and Russia, to compel a peaceful settlement by diplomatic or economic pressure.
This agreement was said by Chungking to include ordering the Chinese Communists out of Chang-chun and Mukden so that Nationalist troops could make air-borne landings.
Such aid by Russia, of course, falls far short of what the United States has been doing on behalf of the central government, but it indicates there is no disagreement as yet on Chiang's right to take over northern areas freed from the Japanese.
The second suggested policy, that of complete American withdrawal, is being warmly backed by a certain section of American opinion and by some members of congress. Six of the latter introduced a resolution in the house of representatives asking the President to pull all military and material aid out of China. All six are Democrats from the American Pacific coast.
In support of the resolution, Rep. Hugh De Leey, Democrat, of Washington, charged that Hurley and Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer, American commander in China, have committed their country to armed intervention on behalf of Chiang Kai-shek.
The action of the six congressmen naturally was hailed with delight by American Communists and professed liberal elements who have been advocating the same course.
The national committee of the Communist party, at its recent three-day meeting in New York decided on a national "crusade for peace," directed, in the words of the Daily Worker, "primarily against the administration's intervention in China
and imperialist course."
A goal was set of 500 "get-out-of-China" mass meetings throughout the country in the first month of the campaign.
The third proposal, that of international action to stop the conflict, has not been advanced officially, although it has been widely discussed.
Frankfurt, (UP)—The German people are drifting into a despair that already has generated widespread hatred of the Americans and may lead to a bloody rebirth of Nazism.
Desperate Germans Now Hate Their American Conquerors
The Germans know they have been beaten by superior force, but they know they have not been crushed, and they are beginning to believe their hope lies in Nazism, Communism, or armed violence.
That is the gist of a report submitted to American military government authorities on an exhaustive survey conducted by army counter-intelligence agents in the United States occupation zone.
They hate the Americans for fraternizing with their women, for failing to provide more food, for not curbing the lawless outrages of displaced persons, and, above all, for not offering them some concrete hope for the future.
Intelligent Germans questioned by American agents maintain the population is becoming increasingly restless as a result of the apparent indifference of U.S. occupation authorities to their problems.
There is whispered talk of organizing vigilante committees to deal with the bands of foreign displaced persons who roam the countryside looting and killing. Such a movement undoubtedly would lead to armed clashes that might involve American troops.
Quick to forget that they were enemies only six months ago, the Germans now plead:
"You Americans must end this lawlessness and restore security. You must help rebuild. You will ruin us and yourselves if you do not give us hope."
They forget Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's proclamation to his troops when they entered Germany, when he declared that the Americans were conquerors, not liberators.
The Germans welcomed the Americans at first because their coming meant an end to the air raids, tension and privation. They were tired of Nazi tyranny. But today they say they are still without hope, that the Nazis at least promised them something, whereas the Americans offer nothing.
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Letter to Mailman Starts Vicious Circle
Lander, Wyo. (UP)—A rural mail carrier reports finding the following note on his route:
"Dear Mailman; Attached is a $5 check for which will you kindly get me a stamp to make our flivver a legal means of transportation for the purpose of going to the ration board to get a permit to obtain gas to have our machine inspected so that we may visit the ration board to get authority to buy a new tire so that our car may be in suitable condition to go pay our withholding tax?"
Leominster, Mass. (UF)—Pity the poor pigeons—now they are being blamed for burning out high-tension electric power lines. Employees of the Waschusett Electric Co. for some time had been baffled by the mysterious burning out of the high-tension wires. Then recently a worker found the cause. The pigeons were taking strands of flexible wire, which they apparently wanted for their nests.
Pigeons Guiltv
Artificial Eye Does Everything But See
New York. (UP)—The navy has perfected an artificial eye that moves, and even shows expression.
This new plastic model, which grips all the muscles behind the eyeball, does everything but see.
The new eye should hit the civilian market some time in 1946, and a price which even the lower income groups can well afford.
Kit Carson Dead
A letter from Carson's fellow prisoners to Mr. and Mrs. Kit Carson III said the soldier died of a broken back in the collapse of a building on Kyushu. The Carson of the early West died in 1868 of complications after he was thrown from his horse.
Alamosa, Colo. (UP)—Pvt. Christopher "Kit" Carson, great-great-grandson of the famed Indian fighter, died in a Japanese prison camp three weeks before V-J day, according to word received by his parents here.
Elephant Treat
Nantucket, Mass. (UP) - They have never seen a circus on this tiny Cape Cod island. But the inhabitants did see an elephant once back in 1835. The beast was exhibited in a barn, with adults admitted for $12\frac{1}{2}$ cents and children for half price.
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