Evening star., 1945-11-27

will be at their service in discussing
frankly other phases of our inter-
national relations.
Il was assigned to China at q
time when statesmen were openly
predicting the collapse of the Ma
tional Government of the Republic
of China and the disintegration OF
the Chinese Army.
Il was directed by President
Roosevelt to prevent the collapse OF
the government and to keep the
Chinese Army in the war. From
both a strategical and diplomatic
viewpoint the foregoing constituted
our chief objective. The next in
Importance was the directive to
harmonic the relations between
the Chinese and American military
establishments and between the
American Embassy in Chunking and
the Chinese government.
1T will readily appear that the
former objective could not be ac-
complished without the accomplish
ment of the secondary objective as
condition precedent. Both OF
these objectives were accomplished
While these ohjectives had the sup
port of the President and the Sec
retary of State it is no secret that
the American policy in China did
not have the support of all the Ca
reer men in the State Department.
Opposition of Diplomats Cited.
"The professional foreign service
men sided with the Chinese Com
munlSt armed party and the i'm
perialist bloc of nations whose policy
it was to keep China divided against
herself. Our professional diplomats
continuously advised the Comrnu-
nists that my efforts in preventing
the collapse of the National Govern
ment did not represent the policy
of the United States.
These same professionals openly
advised the Communist armed party
to decline uniflcation of the Chi
nese Communist Army with the Ma
tional Army unless the Chinese
Communists were given control.
Despite these handicaps we did
make progress toward unification
of the armed forces of China. We
did prevent civil war between the
rival factions. at least until after
I had left China. We did bring
the leaders of the rival parties to-
gether for peaceful discussions.
Throughout this period the chief
opposition to the accomplishment
of our mission came from the
American career diplomats in the
Embassy at Chungking and in the
Chinese and Far Eastern Divisions
of the State Department.
Il requested the relief of the
career men who were opposing the
American policy in the Chinese the
ater OF war. These professional
diplomats were returned to Wash
lngton and placed in the Chinese
and Far Eastern Divisions of the
State Department as my super
visors. Some of these same career
men whom I relieved have been as
signed as advisers to the supreme
commander in Asia. In such posi-
tions most of them have continued
to side with the Communist armed
party and at times with the i'm
perialist bloc against American pol
ICY. This is an outline of one of
the reasons why American foreign
policy announced by the highest
authority is rendered ineffective by
another section of diplomatic Of
f1cials.
Third War in Making.
"The weakness of American for
eign policy has backed us into two
world wars. We had no part in
shaping the conditions that brought
about these two wars. There is a
third world war In the making. In
diplomacy today we are permitting
ourselves to be sucked into a power
block on the side of colonial i'm
perialism against Communist i'm
perialism. I am opposed to both.
I still favor democracy and free
enterprise.
Our announced policy in the
nrSI world war was to make the
world safe for democracy. That
slogan was elaborated for the Sec
ond World War by a definite state
ment of principles in the Atlantic
Charter and the Iran declaration.
I'VE won both wars, but in both
instances we failed to establish the
principles for which we alleged we
were fighting. Americas foreign
policy officials have always been di-
vided against themselves. Conse-
quently, we have always been a
prey to the nations that give lip
service to our ideals and principles
in order to obtain our material sup
port. The war that is now in the
making is not even intended to de-
fend or establish democratic ideals.
Instead of putting our weight be-
hind the Charter of the United Ma
tions we have been definitely sup
porting the imperialistic bloc. At
the same time considerable section
of our State Department is endea-
voring to support Communism gen.
orally as well as specifically in