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tional law. arguing that the in
capacities Of the government Of
a country furnished no excuse
for fishing in its troubled waters.
It was the maintenance of that
standpoint against appeasing Ja-
pan that precipitated the war with
Japan.
The viewpoint had the merit
of embodying a traditional and
understandable principle. 1t was
entirely abandoned at Yalta, in
February, 1945.
Although the Chinese govern
ment was an ally, our Govern
ment, in q secret agreement with
Stain, of which the Chinese gov
ernment was informed only four
months later. effectively assured
that Manchuria should fall to
Russia and-if our previous atti-
tude made any sense at all-that
this would assure Russian hegem-
ony over all China. We thereby
threw previous principles Of legiti-
macy and law to the winds. and
also abandoned the only consist
ent China policy the United
States had ever had-that of the
open door and no special interests
In China.
Barrage Of Propaganda.
This was preceded and followed
by a barrage of American propa-
ganda against Chang Kai-shek
and for the Chinese Communists.
Leading in this propaganda were
the publications of the Institute
For Pacific Relations-on whose
board Prof. Philip C. Jessup, now
of the State Department, sat in
various high capacities-which, as
early as 1943, had opened blast
against the National government.
presenting the issue as between
"feudal" and democratic" China.
The campaign was taken up by
most American writers on China:
by Gen. Joseph w. Stilwell: and
fina1ly-in a yelled way-by the
official White Paper. whose thesis
is we could have done nothing
anyhow. This thesis is fatty de-
MED by our ambassador to China.
The paper is an appalling record
of the disintegration of an
originally clear policy. even to the
extent of justifying the Yalta deal
by historical precedent - the
precedent being Russian inter-
vention in China under the Tsars!
The meaning of Yalta has still
not been digested. Administration
apologists Gncluding the late Ed
ward r. Stettinius, in his book
Roosevelt and Yalta") take the
line that Yalta was all right but
the Russians did not respect
their agreements. This is tanta-
mount to saying Munich was all
right but Hitler did not respect
his agreements. Like Munich,
Yalta established spheres of in
fuence among three great powers,
and contemplated a Big Three
peace (in a Big Three United Ma
tions) Russia was granted spe-
cial interests in East Europe and
China; in no case were the Allied
governments consulted.
Results Were Inevitable.
The fundamental thesis Of
Yalta was incompatible with
every principle of freedom, equal
ity, and international law. tt
was, therefore, incompatible with
democracy. 1t denied every para
graph of the Atlantic Charter,
and it had inevitable results.
Because the Atlantic Charter
was abandoned, we have the At
lantic Pact.
Because we agreed to the divi-
sion of Europe and the partition
of Germany we have our frantic
efforts to "integrate and unite"
rump Europe which is political
and economic monstrosity.
Because we recognized special
Russian interests in China, over
throwing the whole concept of the
open door. we have a Russian
puppet government over the whole
China mainland.
You cannot destroy the author
ity of government in one place
and restore it in another. The
case against the Chinese Nation
alists has been written by Ameri-
can officials, journalists, and pol
icy. The Communists don't need
to write a word of their ownI
propaganda. They can quote
Americans.
There is no principle Of any
kind we can invoke. not even the
principle of non-intervention,
because at Yalta we did intervene.
and made deal, which we en-
forced on the China government.
We are now in the preposterous|
situation of standing out alone
against recognizing the Commu-
mist government which we, more
than any country except Russia,
helped create. It cannot be done,
and certainly not by this admin
istration. We shall have to lie in |
the bed made for us, though we
shall not sleep. The last laugh
may well be Chiangs. |
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