The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-10

10 un0erSCan0 CnlHa, lC IS necessary to remember the follow ing things. Millions of its peo- pie have never heard of its Presi- dent, Generalissimo Chiang Kai- shek. Many Chinese consider Madame Chiang an American up- start because she was educated in this country. The people of North China have to use pid- gin English to converse with the people of South China. Chiang Kai-shek's first wife was Japan eSe and his son was educated in Germany. Finally, you are dealing with an age-old civiliza- tion. It moves with the serenity of centuries. To it, this war is just another of many hundreds.
 Remembering all this, here are some of the unpleasant but in- escapable facts which Wallace (and the rest of us) have to face about China sympathetically.
 Strictest censorship in the world exists in China. U. S. newsmen are virtual prisoners. Chinese guards with bayonets pace in front of their offices - ostensibly to protect. them from any anti- foreign demonstration: actually to see who comes and goes, and to remind the newsmen constantly that they are under guard. The New York Times. correspondent t Brooks Atkinson, most respected of newsmen, has kept careful notes on everything happening during the past couple of years, is returning home soon. If the N. Y. Times lets him print his diary, 1t will blow the lid off.
 U. S. relations with China, be- fore Wallace visit were bad. They were super.bad U. s. Ambassador Clarence Gauss, a conscientious diplomat, for long time was not received by the Gen. eralissimo. Chiang was always too busy When the N. Y. Times wanted an interview with Chiang, they were told he would be busy all summer.
 Palace politics are carried out with bitter intensity, with Chiang in the middle and with control of China as the stake. The war lords around Chiang jockey con- stantly for control They are not interested in Western -civ- ilization, Western politics - only in Western weapons. They don't like Madame Chiang because she is too pro-American For 8 time, China was run by the stu dents who had studied oin the U. s. A. as a result of the Boxer indemnity educational fund .. That was when U. S.-Chinese friendship was at its peak. But now, the East is winning over the west. and the war lords are re- verting China to type.
 Madame Chiang is having hard sIedding. One of her great dif- faculties is that she is childless. As long as she bears the Generals. siEno no progeny. popular senti- ment is with the Generalisismo when he goes to another wife -. Madame Chiang is his third wife and, for time, Chiang went back to No. 2. That was one reason she came to the U. s. A. Now there is talk of a i6-year old girl in the summer palace, the of a war lord who wants to get Chlang away from Madame Chi- ang and her American ddeas.
 American munitions were for a time the chief weapon of Madame Chiang. Through her friend- ships in Washintgon, 1t was ex- pected she could deliver the goods. So the war lords tolerated her For a while she did de- liver. Then We woke up to the fact that U. S. weapons were be- ing used not against the Japs. but against the Chinese army doing most of the fighting agiainst the Japs This Is the so-called Communist Army in new China. Chiang calls them Communists because he doesn't like them. Ac. tually they have a well-knit fight ing force Of over a quarteT-mii. lion and for a time really fought Japan. Then they had to stop fighting Japs and protect them-