Evening star., 1949-01-31
Resistance inChina
Support for Opposition to Advancing Communism
Recommended as a Policy in the Orient

forces find themselves unable fully to consoli-
date their widely extended position In China.
The third argument, which relates to the
evils OF prolonging the civil war in China is
the most difficult to deal with. In spite Of
the humanitarian considerations, 1t seems to
me that the situation is fundamentally like
that during World War II, except that the
identity of the aggressors has been changed.
We did not think 1t wrong to give aid to
Great Britain and to the Free French, or to
the various governments in exile although
this policy tended to prolong the war, and
many Europeans who were killed in these
struggles doubtless would be living today If
an inglorious peace with the German aggres-
sors had been arranged in 1910, or in 1943
after the United States had entered the war.
The same general situation existed in China
during the whole period of World War II
with reference to resisting Japanese aggres-
sion. The present Communist aggression in
China should be resisted It is right to re-
sist 1t, and it is right to help those who resist
The advice to make terms with this "mammon
of unrighteousness" reminds one of Popes IA
miliar lines:
"Vice is a monster of such frightful mien
As to be hated. needs but to be seen;
But seen too oft, familiar with her face,
we lASt cAuuIc, tilcH plCy, CicH cIlUIdCc
If the resistance can be prolonged for even
a few years, there is some ground for hoping
that the intrinsic unsuitability of the Commu-
mist system to Chinese traditions and the
Chinese way of life may become manifest to
men in China who stiIl have a choice of
allegiance But the best instrument for the
United States in an theological warfare in
China will be an anti-Communist government
in esse, able and willing to advocate in Chinese
terms and appropriately to Chinese conditions
an nti-Communist gospel. We cannot rely
safely In this situation on the voiceless truth
that our American system of free enterprise
is superior to the monolithic and all-absorbing
state that Communist policy develops. China,
with its relative lack of newspapers and radios
as we'll as of educated readers and listeners,
will prove in many respects an ideal field for
Communist propaganda. Nature abhors a
vacuum The anti-Communist cause in China
desperately needs advocates on the scene of
action in China itself, advocates who know the
Chinese situation at first hand. Under a con-
solidated Communist regime, such advocates
will not be permitted to speak or act within
the broad outer limits of the whole of China
If a resistance government can be kept alive
its advocates may speak in at least parts of
China, and it may yet prove that it has the
stronger medicine"
Sees Communism the Issue.
1 have not attempted to treat the objection
that Gen. Chiangs government has proved
itself anti-democratic and that corrupt cliques
exist in the Chinese bureaucracy We have no
real choice as to the instruments that can be
used to present an effective resistance to
Communist aggression in China. In this respect
it seems better ito bear the ills we have" which
affect the United States only in an indirect and
secondary way, not fly to other evils that we
know all too clearly, the evils of Communist
enslavement for our old friends and allies in
China, and the enlarged risk of a similar ulti-
mate fate for ourselves
CHARLES S. COLLIER,
Professor of Law, the George Washington
University.