The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-22
Interpreting
The News
Bv JAMES D. WHITE

ASSOCIATED Press Staff Writer)
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21.-P
There's little reason to doubt th'
GOOD news from Chungking.
That's the Ia Kung Pao's SCOOP
on the biggest story in Asia lex
cept for the surrender OF Japan
in many year-the news tina
the central government and the
Communists have reached "ar
agreement to agree"
When this news becomes officla
and concrete, the way will be
open for the worlds most populous
nation to begin cleaning out the
political cobwebs of the last two
decades and start on the road te
internal peace and full stature as
world power.
China's position as power was
outlined at Moscow and Cairo In
1913. and the recent Russo-Crl'
nese treaties may be thought oil
as "enabling acts" which remove
the chief external uncertainties
before it.
But China's own lack of unity
still stood in the way of the bat
tered nations path of progress.
something like 100000 Chinese In
the north were governed by Com
rnunist leaders who violated ma
tional law by belonging to the
Communist party. They main
tanned their own army.
The Communists and the Gen.
trail Government both said they
wanted to get together. But the
Communists wanted political
equality, and Chungking baked
at this because the Nationalist
Kuominang party still ruled the
nation under the political tute-
lage" set up by Sun Yat-Sen 70
years ago. And feared the spread
of Communist ideas.
The Chungking government
wanted the Reds to give up their
independent army, bu he Reds re-
fused, basically, because they
were afraid of what might happen
to them if they had no protecting
army.
Now, after long negotiation,
Generalissimo Chang Kai-Shek OF
Chungking and Red leader Mao
Tze-tung have reached an agree
ment which is based on the princi-
pie that national unity is para
mount if China is to develop into
a PROSPEROUS nation and take her
place in the world.
The Ia Kung Pao's sco-y is
not yet official. but there can be
little doubt that political reality, II
nohing else, is forcing the two
contending parties to get together.
Chungking apparently is grazing
political equality-which would
mean that Communists break no
Jaw by being Communists.
And it may be assumed that
some sort Of settlement will be
involved whereby the Independent
Red armies become part of the
National army and answers to
Chang Kai-slrek for what it does.
The main political reality be-
hind this is the fact that the
Chinese people have had eight
years Of war and are starved for
peace and little living-and the
Chinese know how to live.
Almost unprecedented economic
and social problems lie across
their path toward prosperity, but
there is such bright promise at
the end of the road for the in
dividual Chinese that his main
desire now is for a chance to
have the necessities Of life rather
than more danger and uncertainty,
especially from his own people.
To take one small item, as the
Chinese 60 back into the occupied
third of China, and intod Formosa
and Manchuria, almost any ite-ate
Chinese can have some kind OF
administrative job or chance to
get into a reviving business.
The Chinese are good business
men if nothing else, and neither
Chungking nor the Communist are
likely to overlook it.