The Ypsilanti daily press., 1944-11-14
observations
mo Improvement
: Seen in Chinese
Situation
BY HELEN EssARl

The thing about you isolation
that makes me maddest. NUT
red a pre-Pearl Harbor interyen-
)nlst, "is that everything you
ophesied is coming true. For
ample-just look a. China! What
success we are over there!"
Realizing as ] do that isola-
)nist' is being made into a syn
YIN for-shall we say 'leper', |
ank you for those sweet words,
replied, "And-yet do look 1t
lima. What a spectacle!"
China is indeed Il spectacle. Over
rds still exploiting the poor!
scessive wealth in the hands of a
W! Double-crossing diplomacy!
iiang Kai-shek ordering us, his
ost useful ally, to recall General
ilwell, one of our greatest mill
ry men. And getting away with
order, too.
II is just one of them things
Id the President, explaining the
linese generalissimo's personal
,slike Of General Stilwell.
1t certainly is one OF them
ings." And it makes me. more
.rtain than ever that soldiers Of
e United States, your sons and
inc; have no business in that
st, strange country. Giving their
yes to protect not the Chinese.
1t the Chang dynasty.
Those rumors that come through
Jout a certain tendency Of the
slinese to traffic with the enemy"
o not surprise people who have
red in China. Certainly the Chi
ese are more fundamentally like
,e Japanese than they are like
'nericans. And what presumption
4 our part to think that we can
lderstand the Chinese.
Four hundred million people!
bu can't imagine that many peo-
e.. A nation that has been dig
ng deeper and deeper into its own
rental philosophy and ways OF
ie centuries before julius Caesar
-er thought OF dividing Gaul into
rec parts
And We think We can rush IL.
med with ammunition and food
at your taxes and mine have
,ught. and convert every one o.
e 400,000,000 plus every one OF
0,000.000's NANCY dogs into
Ippy. useful citizens in the family
nations.
| am reminded of the prize re-
ark of Eric Johnston, alert presi-
mt OF the L. S. Chamber Of Com
cree. brought lex from his re-
mt trip to Russia.
The remark was made by Mr..
alin TO Mr.. Johnston Q'm sorry.
.ic. But you shouldn't have told
g thing yourself to the person
no told it to me, II you didn't
ant IL repeatedly
Said Mr.. Stain: you Americans
e a funny people. Why do you
,ep worrying about China? China
big and rich. II she were smart
lough to help herself she would
I'VE done so long ago. China is
orth nothing TO you but trouble.
ou foolish Americans should know
at you cannot take charge Of her"
WHO will take charge OF China,
r. Stalin?" asked Mr.. Johnston.
"I will take charge OF China" re-
led Mr.. Stain. And then he al
ost laughed.
WE CERTAINLY ARE a silly
I. Have a look at us in South
merica. Haven't we gummed
ings up down there! A newspa-
IT friend OF mine, corresponding
ON Buenos Aires, just wrote her
iitor that she was coming back
)me.
Il am getting tired OF being hiss
1 at, simply because | come from
o United States" she said. And
hen yesterday was part OF lit
2 conversational group which a
,liceman drove off the street with
bayonet--. Well that was too
uch,"
AS FURTHER PROOF Of our
volved goings on among the Lat
9 I report the following:
THE United Stat is a very
,ung nation" said the Ecuado-ean
AMBASSADOR at a luncheon OF the
'oman's National Press Club. You
I, not yet understand the world.
(. it's trade. The English and the
ermans have been at the business
long, long time. You are be-
nning."
The ambassador was thus answ-
ing my question. why are the
orth Americans a failure in South
merica, when compared with the
ngiish and the Germans