cecemoniecaram is : fathey _lomat — Ovade } of US t ~ well, Formosa (Taiwan) is a Japanese island. The CCF na- tional leader made this remarkable Statement to the Vancouver News Herald this week in explaining why he had changed his mind on the issue of Canadian recognition of the People’s Republic of China. “Canada should not recognize the ‘People’s government’ of Chi- na until the North Korean forces are back behind the 38th paral- lel,”’ Coldwell is quoted as saying. “We should not recognize the new Chinese government under duress.” Elaborating this position in his in- terview with the News-Herald, Coldwell declared, “We should not protect Chiang Kai-shek in ormosa, _The United Nations should tell Chiang to remove him- self from there. _It is a Japanese island.” The News-Herald added this equally remarkable editorial ex- planation to Coldwell’s remark, in parenthesis: ‘‘Formosa was given to China under the terms of the Cai- ro declaration of 1943, but it has not been officially ceded to China by treaty.” The obvious inference to be drawn from Coldwell’s claim is that he believes Formosa should be handed bach to U.S.-occupied Japan. And this raises the inte- resting question of how far Cold- well is speaking for himself and how far for the U.S. state depart- ' ment, President Truman, by his order fo U.S. naval and air forces to pipet the Chinese People’s Li- Cration armies from occupying ormosa, has violated both the Cairo declaration and his own re- cent statement of U.S. intention not to interefere in Formosa, an order which Chinese President fao Tse-tung has countered with ‘s own declaration that the Peo- ble’s government intends to libe- tate Formosa. Formosa — Taiwan to the Chi- Nese — is not a Japanese island, and Japan has no more valid claim £0 it than it has to Korea or Man- Churia. It was seized by Japan “fter the defeat of imperial China in 1895, but the Japanese never wholly succeeded in quelling the Pposition of the Taiwanese to Meir’ rule, The man who Das in- Strumental in dismembering China as none other than John Foster, former U.S, secretary of state. and jandfather of John Foster Dul- Below is the story of how Tohn . Foste; forced China to cede For- “sa ta Javan when the Taiwa- nese were in active revolt against {te imperial Chinese government. ‘Sut John Foster, the Republican, @ no more concerned with the sions of the Taiwanese than - J. Coldwell, the ‘Socialist’, his desire to give Formosa to Pan, . ® ‘ By ART SHIELDS OHN FOSTER DULLES, Y Republican banker-lawyer so Ntmately bound up with the Tru- ‘an administration’s decision for Si q intervention in Asia, learn- : his trade of international plot- ng and looting from his grand- and his uncle before him. les’ uncle, Robert Lansing, Secretary of state, was the dip- : Who asked the Japanese to 19, Soviet Siberia in 1918, 9 and 1920 — with the aid And his grandfather, John Fos- ‘another former secretary of » often boasted how he help- : *d to dismember China and to hand Ae to M. J. Cold- ,_ Pi i In Vancouver this week to attend the CCF national convention, M. J. Coldwell, CCF national leader, was far more careful of his appearance than he was of his facts. CULT Ht i SURE the island of Formosa over to the Japanese in 1895. That was 55 years before his grandson advised President Tru- man, to seize Formosa in addition to Korea, and to shoot up the Chinese if they tried to recover this rich territory. Grandfatner Foster tells the shameful story of his deal in For- mosa in his book, Diplomatic Memoirs. Foster went to China in 1895 as the “adviser” to the Chinese peace delegation after the defeat of China by Japan. His job was to weaken China in the interest of Wall Street. But he had trou- ble with the Chinese delegation at first. "The Chinese chief delegate, Lord Li, was stalling on the Ja- panese main demand — surrender | 3 China to restore \ PEKING Te CHINESE Peoples’ Gov- ernment is now turning its at- tention to China’s long-neglected forest lands. It is preserving what little remains of them and put-, ting into effect some immediate plans for afforesting large tracts of treeless hills and plains. Most of China was once a con- tinuous expanse of wooded land. Wanton felling over the past 3,000 years wiped out most of the for- ests. Neither the ancient emperors, nor the feudal lords nor Chiang Kai-shek type of ruler lifted a finger to halt the wholesale de- struction. As the people now take stock of their country, they find that only a little over five percent of the whole is forested; with the excep- tion of Manchuria and the inac- cessible parts of South and South- west China, the wooded lands have been almost¢completely de- Ay will thus face a serious timber shortage as she becomes BURLEY SUEUR BUTE Re of the rich island of Formosa. Dulles’ grandfather was enrag- ed. He told Lord Li and his father, Li Hung Chang, the Chi- nese imperial viceroy, that they must transfer Formosa without further delay. The Chiness leaders continued to delay the, transfer of the island during protracted negotiations. Foster reports the following dia- logue between Li and the Japan- ese representative. Marquis Ito: Li: Why such headlong haste about Formosa. The plum is al- ready in your mouth. Ito: But we shall hunger for it until we have bolted it down. But to Foster’s disgust the Chi- nese still blocked the Formosa deal. Lord Li said«he couldn’t transfer the island because the peo- industrialized in the coming years, unless serious steps are im- mediately taken to change the position, Absence of forests is.a constant factor in floods, sand storms and other natural calamities. This is ‘especially true of North China, where the Yellow River and other rivers became silted up with sand and soil washed down from the bare loess highlands of Shensi and Shansi_ provinces, periodically overflowed in rainy seasons and @ave rise to widespread floods, e A 1950 afforestation plan was drawn up by the ministry of for- estry immediately after inaugur- ation of the People’s government last November. Under this plan, 500 million trees will have been planted throughout the country before the coming winter, while in some areas whole localities are being set aside as forest reserves. Attempts will be made to start tapping the hitherto almost un- touched timber reserves of East- oldwell -- and the facts about Formosa ULI nt Jet dt | ple of Formosa had revolted against the Japanese deal. They had arrested the imperial Chinese oficials who wanted to surrender the island, and had set up an anti Japanese local government in For- mosa. So Li said the deal would have to wait. Under Chinese custom it was necessary to transfer such property on the spot — and Li dared not go ashore in Formosa. ' The Japanese admitted Li was right. The transfer of Formosa must wait until the revolution was overthrown. In this crisis Foster proposed a U.S. real estate solution. “I told him (Lord Li),”’ writes» Dulles’ grandfather, “‘that he could execute his mission and com- ply with the treaty without doing so (going ashore). “TI told him that in the western nations it was a common practice fo transfer vast estates of great tracts of land from one owner to another by an instrument called a deed, and that the title passed by the mere signing and delivering of the writing without visiting the land. “I saw no reason why this prac- tice should not be fellowed in the present instance.” — The Japanese were delighted with Foster’s real estate deal. And Foster says the deed was duly executed on the deck of a Japan- ese flagship in the harbor of the Formosan port of -Tamsui, while the U.S. adviser looked on. That’s the story of the U.S. role in tho dismemberment of Chi- na, ravaged ern Inner Mongolia, so as to re- lieve the necessity for drawing on the forests of East Manchuria, which had been mercilessly ex- ploited by the Japanese colonial- ists during the occupation. As figures show, this year’s af- forestation program is only a very small beginning. China has an area 11 times the size of the Brit- ish Isles suitable for afforestation. It will take a very long time before an area of this size is turned into forest lands. Bolder plans will certainly be applied as the coun- try’s economy develops. e Tree planting campaigns draw- ing in several million people Swept the length and breadth of the land with the advent of spring. 100,000 peasants in West Hopei province and a quarter of a mil- lion in the south Manchurian Province of Liaosi, to give just BNE! RT tg Foster was dined by Japanese merchants and officials in Tokyo soon after. He hurried back to the U.S., however. He had a date with his seven year old grandson (John Foster Dulles), he told his East- ern friends. The boy was. the apple of his eye. And in the years that fol- lowed he was training him to be as wily a diplomat as himself. Meanwhile, Chinese sovereign- ty was being destroyed by the western and eastern imperialists who kept troops in the capital of China itself and occupied its prin- cipal ports. And when the Chi- nese came to the jphony peace congress at The Hague in 1907, they were forced to accept two Ameriéans as members of the Chi- nese delegation. One of these “Chinese” dele- gates was old man Foster. The other was his 19-year old grandson, John Foster Dulles, who served as secretary of the Chinese delegation. Grandfather and grandson saw the door slammed in the face of the Korean ‘ delegation at this meeting 42 years ago. The Korean credentials were not accepted. And the real Chin- ese, Foster reported cynically, were greeted with laughter when they protested the armed invasions of their ancient lands. ‘ But those disgraceful days are over. The Wall Street diplomats are laughing out of the other side of their mouths today as the peo- plo of the East are winning the I: for fresdom, * forests two examples, joined in the great work. Many government office workers in the provinces took part, and in Central and South China the People’s Liberation Army launched the campaign of “a tree per man.” % Never before had people taken to tree planting on such a scale. When Chiang Kai-shek was at the height of power, there used to be a “tree planting day”, on the 12th of March every year, . during which Kuomintang big shots and ‘their hirelings were photographed plan a few young trees in their gardens, where incidentally they were usually left to wither. But today, the peasants, whom the agrarian reform has freed from feudal bondage, are planting trees not just for fun or publicity, but as part of their long-term de- termination to build up their to do so for decades to come un- til the barren regions of China have been turned into valuable and protective forest lands. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JULY 28, 1950—PAGE 5