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ls U.S. plotting new. intervention in China ?

Kuomintang urges U.S. create puppet state

—WASHINGTON
so ale new American interven-
at in China was forecast last
fici nd when a Kuomintang of-
aoe Presented the U. S. state

Partment with a secret plan for
Maintaining Kuomintang rule in
estern China.
he plan, envisioning U.S. mili-
Son, aid, was presented to Acting
b Ctetary of State James E. Webb
a Dr. Kan Chieh-hou, a personal
poresentative of Kuomintang
eeepeat Li Tsung-jen. Webb was
i Ported by Kan to be “sympathet-
© and enthusiastic.” c
W an said he has asked for a
‘, ite House appointment to lay
© Dlan before President Truman.
it woud he already had discussed
G with former Secretary of State
enatee C. Marshall and that Mar-
th ! was “enthusiastic and sympa-
etic,”
to nae Said he had been instructed
® Inform Truman that President
ti Was confident Kuomintang
aes could hold Western China
Sainst the Communists. .

“We can continue without Ame-
rican aid, but we could hold on
better with American aid,” Kan
claimed.

The plan reportedly calls for
abandonment of all coastal areas
north of Canton still in Kuomintang
hands and surrender of Canton it-
self to the Liberation armies.
Since advance elements of the Lib-
eration armies were reported this
week to be less than 300 miles
from the great South China port,
even the most optimistic officials
in Washington concede its fall to
be only a matter of weeks.

By the proposal to create an
Asiatic “cordon sanitaire” in the
southernmost regions of China.
Kuomintang leaders hope to ob-
tain U.S. intervention and so sal-
vage the remnants of their
crumbling regime. The most at-
tractive feature of the plan, in
the eyes of the Truman adminis-
tration, they feel, is the idea of
preventing the New China from
occupying the border regions ad-

joining Indo-China, Burma and
India.
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An interested advocate of such
a plan is U.S.:Major General Claire
L. Chennault, who testified before
the Senate Armed Services Com-
mittee urging Congress to author-
ize a program of “positive action”
in the form of military and eco-
nomic assistance to support a
holding action against the Chinese
Liberation forces and to maintain
a beachhead in the remaining so-
called “free” areas of China.

Chennault’s airline was recently
described by the New York Times
as the most important link be-
tween the “outside world” and the
armies of Ninghsia, the region in
Northwest China controlled by the
Moslem warlord, Ma Hung-kuo.

The Chinese armies have time
and again pointed an accusing
finger at Chennault’s Civil Air
Transport planes for taking an
active part in bombing the Lib-
eration armies’ front line forces

and liberated cities, killing thous-
ands of non-combatant Chinese.

How-Chennault acquired this air-
line is itself an interesting story.

Soon after V-J Day, Chennault
planned to start his own air line
in China but was unsuccessful.
Then, in the fall of 1946, the Chin-
ese National Relief and Rehabili-
tation Administration (CNRRA),
decided to strengthen its transpor-
tation work. Chennault seized the
opportunity and entered an agree-
ment with CNRRA to carry sup-
plies. That-was the beginning of
Chennault’s Civil Air Transport,
known as CAT.

In the agreement drawn up be-
tween CNRRA and Chennault, it
was stated that CNRRA, in order
to supply goods to the relief areas,
should provide 12 aircraft for con-
stant operation, and that such air-
craft, together with necessary
equipment, should be supplied by
CNRRA from the United Nations
Relief and Rehabilitation Adminis-

tration (UNRRA), provided that
the cost did not exceed $2.000,000.

CNRRA also asked UNRRA to
provide foreign exchange for an-
other million U.S. dollars for salar-
ies of alien employees, fuel and
other necessary equipment from
abroad. Thus Chennault acquired
three million U.S. dollars from this
relief enterprise.

In the same agreement it was
specified that CNRRA air transport
services should be devoted to relief
purposes exclusively and that op-
erational centers should be confin-
ed to Canton, Kweilin, Hengyang,
Liuchow, Nanchang, Hankow and
Shanghai. 7

But later facts revealed that
Chennault violated the terms of
the agreement by carrying all
kinds of cargo all over China,
without any interference from
Chiang Kia-shek’s custom’s de-
partment or ministry of commun-
ications, indicating his connec.
tions with T. V. Soong, H. H.
2 and Chiang Kai-shek him-

Communists
Were jailed
illegally

‘ —NEW YORK
r os trial of America’s Commun-
into *aders has been transformed
tion tna! within a trial, Atten-
and pris week centered on a new
Rover wt ediate issue—whether the
munis ot could throw the Com-
Row St defendants into prison
Rion as to facilitate its aim to
Year €m into prison for 10-

terms later,

ane latest and most. serious in-
trig “2! Skirmish in the 18-week
When precipitated last week
defengroe® Gates, one of the 11
York ants and editor of the New
Cross ly Worker, was under
Kates. xamination on the stand.
tion was asked by the prosecu-
Collabora who
Neation

OY vet,

name the persons

of a Communist pamphlet

Duckon 228, “Who Ruptured Our |.

Woulg irmly, Gates replied he
hi Rot turn informer against
8Ssociates,

See that, Judge Medina judged
him petty: of contempt, ordered

© Jail for 30 days. Defen-
all», Ty Winston and Gus
by 4, 8° to protest, were cut off
A Judge, and ordered jailed,
Rane for the duration of

Presse

Nam e
Spe:

from
Gates

““ by the prosecution to
ne 28sociates and lay them
° indictment or dismissal
Jobs in private industry,
Tefused, and said:

ae would degrade me in the
| on my associates amd the
of th Movement, in the eyes
°f ty Public, and in the eyes
Stootpi jury to act as a common
aie e give you such
I >», -'mation as you desire.
court want to have on my
ence the fact that any hu-

f live VoUld lose his means
becans thood or even his life
tion th, ane any such informa-
"sponse I might give you in
I Yoke —. Your question, and
© my rights under the

Sin
Ran Ht then, Gates, Winston and
twa, th. SPent their time be-
© court room and the
etention pen.

Week, however, Judge

y admitted that
_Winston and Hall
Jail for five days,
th had not properly

© grounds for their
ser «his authority for
Judge Medina is-
order remanding
to jail on the grounds

ted with him in the pub-|’

Traitor released

The Brazilian counterpart of
“Axis Sally” about to leave her
cell at Rio de Janeiro is Mar-
gadida Hirschman. Her 20-year
sentence for treason was com-
muted by President Eurico Gas-
par Dutra.

Brings Polish
citizenship

By RHODA MILLER

—WARSAW
Adoption of Polish citizenship
by George Chandos Bidwell, head
of the British Council in Poland,
has created a rare State of speech-
lessness in British embassy circles
here. :
Bidwell’s statement, .which ap-
peared in the Polish press over
the holiday weekend, explained
that he was adopting Polish citiz-
enship because he rejected the
American way of life, “which is
the law of the jungle,” and was
convinced that Poland “wants and
needs peace, and strives for peace
because only in conditions of peace
can Poland be reconstructed. de-
velop its culture, science and econ-
omy, and make up for the incom-
parable losses suffered during the
upation.”
Fy epbaae circles Bidwell was
regarded as a conservative—no one
suggests he Was a communist—
and it is therefore all the more
disturbing to the British foreign
office that he became so profound-
ly disgusted with British war ae
icy and submission — to the US.
that he renounced British citizen-
eet charged that Britain had
sold out “to American dollars, ae
out to the ‘new world’ idea thai
economies can only be eet
by war, conquest and imperialis

i five days after they
Y been incarcerated.

expansion.”

Organization of Germany
for peace or war Big 4 issue

By ISRAEL EPSTEIN

The main difference between the Soviet and U.S. positions at the almost-deadlocked Paris Big
Four conference on Germany is that the Russians are looking back to

cans are thinking of World War III: The Soviet delegat
Nazi Germany by completing fulfillment of

the U.S.-British-Soviet

aim of that agreement was to eliminate all future possibility of a new

War II ally.

World War II while the Ameri-

es want to nail down the allied victory over
Potsdam agreement of 1945.

The

German war against any World

American spokesmen have as much as said they regard the Potsdam pact as a dead letter. Their

stand
powers and outside the United Na-
tions, such ‘as the Truman doc-
trine, Marshall plan and Atlantic
pact. Thus, U.S. Secretary of State
Dean Acheson told the press even
before he left Washington for
Paris that “his primary concern
would not be an East-West agree-
ment on Germany made just for
the sake of agreement. Instead, he
spoke of a determination to pro-
tect the economic recovery, and
political stability of all western
Europe in which Germany plays a
vital part.”

In pursuance of this objective,
Acheson said at Paris that unifi-
cation of the Soviet and western
occupation zones of Germany pre-
liminary to a final peace treaty
would be acceptable only on the
basis of the west-German consti-
tution adopted recently at Bonn,
which was admittedly dictated by
the U.S. and Britain, over the mis-
givings not only of many Germans
but also of the French. The task
of the’ Bonn parley was to draw
the framework of Germany as a
western ally against Russia and
“against Communism.”

This sort of unification of Ger-
many is quite unacceptable to
many German groups, as well as
to the “economic recovery and po-

.| litical stability” of eastern Europe,

which has its own interests no less
than the west European govern-
ments have.

Eastern Europe, after all, was
the area subject to the fiercest
and most bloody German aggres-
‘sion. That its fears of such a
pattern for Germany are justified
may be seen from the fact that
similar fears have been expressed
even by the U.S.-oriented French
administration. France too ex-
perienced German occupation,
whereas Britain and the U.S. did
not. :

While French objections. were
successfully stifled by the U.S. be-
cause the present Paris govern-
ment is totally dependent on Mar-
shall plan aid, the east European
countries cannot be silenced in the
same way, and they have the sup-
port of Russia. Agreement on Ache-
son’s terms, or under Acheson’s
dictation, is therefore ‘not possible.
Agreement can only come out of
a new give-and-take compromise
or a return to Potsdam, which Ach-

eson has so far ruled out.
One article of the Potsdam treaty

is based on postwar arrangements of an anti-Soviet nature ma

‘of the entire labor movement, ,

de exclusively among the Western

stated that German “concentration
of economic power as exemplified
in particular by cartels, syndicates,
trusts and other monopolistic ar-
arrangements” must be eliminated.

An official U.S. report issued
this year stated that the U.S. mili-
tary administration in western
Germany had not even begun the
work of decartelization. In eastern
Germany, on the other hand, all
big German capitalists. were ex-
propriated three years ago and
their enterprises socialized.

Another article pledged all the
allies, “to destroy the Nazi party
and its affiliated and supervised
organizations . . . to ensure that
they are not revived in any form.”
The signatories further undertook
that “all members of the Nazi party

- Shall be removed from posi-
tions of responsibility from private
undertakings.”

Independent U.S. reports from
west Germany state that over 70
percent of present officials there
are ex-Nazis. General Lucius D.
Clay’s directive bringing German
industry back under its previous
owners reinstated former Nazi eco-
nomic directors in the control of
the great Ruhr valley iron and
steel combines.

No one can expect the Soviet
Union, Poland or Czechoslovakia .
to agree to the strengthening of
German against themselves. A
return to Potsdam, on the other
hand, need menace no one. Pots-
dam was signed at a time when
all countries looked not to World
War III but to lasting peace.

Tin miners end srike!

—LA PAZ
The great Bolivian tin strike in
which more than 50 persons. were
injured in clashes between troops
and strikers ended June 4 with a
union-government agreement which
conceded some of the workers’ de-
mands.
The government, under pressure

which backed the tin miners in a
virtually complete general strike,
agreed to recognize union rights,
re-admit deported union leaders.
remove all soldiers from the minc®@
release all arrested miners and con-'
sider payment of indemnities for
the killed and wounded.

€

Pact support
brings break

—PARIS

The Catholic-led Confederation
of Christian Workers (CFTC), third
largest labor body in France, brokg
off its coalition with the anti_
Communist Force Ouvriere (Work.
ers’ Strength) labor federation by

majority vote at its recent annual
convention,

The break came under pressure
of rank-and-file CFTC delegates
who oppose both the Force Ouvri-
ere’s lack of militancy in wage
‘drives and its outspoken support
of the North Atlantic Pact. The
way is now open for renewed co-
operation between the CFTC and
the French General Federation of
Labor (CGT), which unites the
majority of French workers under
left-wing leadership. The CGT fa-
vors strong action for higher
wages ‘and is unalterably against
the Atlantic treaty in foreign pol-
icy.

Joint action between CGT and
CFTC unions has been growing
for some time on the local and in-
dustrial level. Such action has
already taken place in 15 key in-
dustries, including railroads, metal
industries, public utilities and the
Renault motor. works. Now the
CFTC leadership has also been of-
ficially committed to “accord on
limited, concrete points, excluding’
political agreements” with the en-
tire CGT.

Proceedings at the CFTC con-
vention were marked by angry
attacks on the Force Quvriere’s
“ultimatum” demand that the
CFTC break off all common ac-
tion with the CGT. This “ultima_
tum” was part of a Force Ouvri-
ere drive, undertaken in consul-
tation with British and U. S.
right-wing labor leaders, to pull
the CFTC into the new “anti_
communist world labor federa
tion” now being organized on the
inspiration of the AFL, CIO and

' British Trades Union Congress.
The CIO and TUC recently with-
drew from the World Federation
of Trade Unions for this pur-
Pose.

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