Evening star., 1950-11-11
Peiping's Poison Tongue and Pen

One OF the solid facts of history is that for
generations past no two countries in the world
have been friendlier than the United States and
China. Indeed, to degree that seems unique
In the field of international relations, kind
OF afection-if such word may be used to
describe the feelings of whole peoples toward
each other-haS existed between us, with
genuine emotional content on the part of
Americans.
Despite occasional strains upon it. this
frendship-whch of course has been matter
OF enlightened self-interest, and not merely
emotion-has expressed itself in many concrete
ways over period of several decades In the
last century, for example, it took the form of
our open Door" policy, and since then it has
been repeatedly demonstrated by missionary
work, relief efforts educational exchanges, eco
nomic aid, mutually enriching trade and numer-
Gus other large-scale cooperative enterprises
Above all, it has been backed by an American
foreign policy which has been aimed, regardless
OF blunders not only at promoting our own
security, but at encouraging the progress of the
Chinese people and championing their indie
pendence and territorial integrity against the
threat of foreign dominaton-a policy for which
our youth fought and died against the Japanese
in the Second World War
Accordingly, with this historical background
In mind, 1t is shocking to see-five years after
the bloody struggle in which we liberated China
from Japan-how the nedgling Communist
regime at Peiping is now engaged, with tongue
and pen, in one of the most virulent "hate-
America" campaigns yet staged in the Kremlin's
empire behind the Iron Curtain What Mao
Tse-tung and his minions are doing amounts
to nothing less than carefully planned syste-
matte enort to poison the minds of the Chinese
people against us, to beat out of their thoughts
nj
ship, to make them believe that we seek to
attack and enslave them, to turn them into our
bitter foes, and to hammer away at them with
Such barrage OF venomous, fear-inciting lies
that they will willingly support what the
Moscow-serving Mao is doing today in Korea at
the risk of unleashing a new world war.
Typical of this hate-breeding campaign are
these words from Chinese Communist news
paper: when we mention the Soviet Union
we think of reaching out with our hands-in a
warm clasp. When we think of the United
States we think of reaching out with our fists
IN a blow for blow Also typical is Peiping
exnortation to China's educators to teach their
students to "despise the United States hold
enmity against it," and regard it as a constant
threat the most ruthless and most reac-
tlonary enemy Of the people of the world"-a
country whose operations in Korea (the United
Natlons is not mentioned) constitute Com
tnuation of japanese Imperialism for the pur-
pose OF the eventual invasion of China the
swallowing up of all Asia and the starting point
OF the Fascist dream for world conquest"
One of the worst things about all this
apart from the way it suggests that Mao may
be ready to start a large-scale war-is that it
cannot be answered effectively through the Iron
curtain. So we can only hope that the common
sense and the long memories of the Chinese
people will immunize them to 1t. They have
never had better friend than the United
States, and it would be tragedy of the first
order II now they were to be incted into hating
U.s. Peiping's diabolically deliberate effort to
that end is another striking measure of the
monumental evil that is communism.