Evening star., 1949-12-15
Jessup Leaves Today
On Fact-Finding Trip
To Far Eastern Area


To Far Eastern Area
Ambassador Large Philip c..
Jessup leaves Washington today
for q fact-f1nding mission to the
Far East which is expected to lay
the basis for future American
action about China and the threat
Of communism to other lands
In that area.
Chairman Kee of the House
Foreign Affairs Committee said
Mr.. Jessup's report on conditions
in the area Of advancing COM
munism should be very valuable"
in helping shape policy decisions.
The rowing Ambassador, top
administration foreign policy
trouble-shooter. conferred for
more than an hour yesterday with
Mr.. Kee and two other members
Of the House committee on plans
for his mission.
Mr.. Kee said Mr.. Jessup planned
to visit China itself provided it
was possible for him to get there.
Is well as Japan and other coun-
tries in the area menaced by the
Communist control Of most OF
China.
Doesn't Believe China Lost.
He added that he assumed Mr.
Jessup would look into the ques-
ton Of whether the $75 900
appropriated by the last Congress
for President Truman's discre-
tionary use in the China area
could be spent to the most ad-
vantage now in direct aid to the
non- Chinese. or in
neighboring areas.
Representative Eaton Of New
Jersey. ranking Republican mem
Der Of the House committee, and
Representative Mansfield, Demo-
crat, OF Montana Joined Mr.. Kee
In the conference with Mr.. Jessup.
The chairman said Mr.. Jessup
made it clear that he does not
believe China has been completely
lost to the Communists yet. de-
spite the retreat Of the Chinese
Nationalist government to For
moSa.
Mr.. Jessup emphasized, how
ever, Mr.. Kee said that his mis-
sion Is to make factual report
on actual conditions, in the area.
Mr.. Kee said he assumed the
House and Senate committees
dealing with foreign affairs would
be supplied with the information
Mr.. Jessup reports to the State
Department.
Leaving Washington by train
today, Mr.. Jessup is to sail from
San Francisco Tuesday for Japan
arriving there January 5.
Tokyo is the first stop on his
itinerary. He is expected to confer
there with Gen. Macarthur and
also to determine exactly the time
table for the rest OF his trip up TO
the time he arrives at Bangkok,
Siam, In early February.
In Bangkok he will meet with
top American diplomats from all
over the Far East in a conference
due to last from February II to Is.
Then he will visit India and PAX
istan and probably return to the
United States by ship through the
Mediterranean. - i
Mr.. Jessup is expected to visit
all places Of primary concern to
the United States and the other
Western powers in their efforts to
develop an effective stop-Commu-
nisrn program for that part OF the
world.
Among the questions which Mr..
Jessup may discuss with Gen.
Macarthur and other American
leaders in the Far East are: The
future attitude of the United
States toward Formosa, the
progress OF work on a Japanese
peace treaty. and whatever meas
ures the United States may be
able to take in such countries as
Indo- China and Burma to help
keep the Communists from TAX
ing them over.
Called Well Qualified.
State Department officials said
Mr.. Jessup is especially well quail
fied. For the last three months
he has headed a special advisory
group which Secretary OF State
Acheson set up to help him de-
yelop American foreign policy
toward the Far East as a result
Of the Communist conquest IN
China.
He is therefore intimately IA
miliar with the views OF Presi-
dent Truman and Secretary Ache
son on what may or what may not
be possible in future United States
diplomacy in that area.
80 far, there have been no pub
Lie disclosures of the results OF
the work of his policy advisory
group.
In the time that he has been
engaged in this task. however, the
United States has striven hard
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