Evening star., 1950-12-23
Red China Sticks to War

Coupled with General MacArthurs statement
that new enemy offensive apparently is in the
making, Red China's rejection of the General
Assembly's proposal for a cease-fire in Korea
leaves little or no room for doubt that the
Chinese Communists are determined to continue
to wage their criminal warfare unless and until
the United Nations capitulates to their terms
terms whose source, of course, is the Kremlin.
1t is not necessary to take second look at
those terms to see that they are impossible They
call, first of all, for the immediate withdrawal
Of the U. MS military forces from Korea-a
condition that would permit the Soviet-serving
Chinese Communists to insure the triumph of
their aggression and to decide unilaterally when
and If they should return to Manchuria Beyond
that, in exchange for cease-f1re they have
re-emphasized that Formosa must first be sur
rendered to them and that they must be admitted
into the United Nations. That is to say they
must be rewarded for their shocking crime; the
world peace organization must eat humble pie,
kowtow to Mao Tse-tung, and permit Red China
to shoot and murder it's way into membership.
Unquestionably Peiping, acting in close con-
cert with Moscow, is fully aware that the free
world can never agree to such terms. The Mao
governments decision therefore amounts to-
nothing less than decision to continue at war
with the So of the 60 u N members who have
voted emphatically in favor of the effort to
establish q cease-fire and negotiate a peaceful
and honorable settlement of the Far Eastern
crisis That effort-growing out of an earnest
desire by the Arab and Asian countries to check
the steadily mounting danger of general armed
conhict-has been made in complete good faith,
with the Soviet bloc alone dissenting In rejecting
1t, however. the Chinese Communists have had
the effrontery to insult its sponsors (the over
whelming majority of the United Nations) by
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The good faith thus seems to have been thor
oughly wasted. What we apparently are up
against here is a force resolutely intent upon
trying to impose its will on mankind even at
the risk of setting off global explosion.
In such circumstances the United Nations
ought certainly to take most seriously the anti
Peiping proposals made the other night by former
President Herbert Hoover. Although The Star has
already voiced its disagreement with Mr.. Hoovers
basic thesis on how best to cope with the threat
Of worldwide Communist aggression, it believes
in the light of what the Chinese Reds are now
doing-that he has offered sound counsel in
urging the U. N. Cd to brand Macs China as an
aggressor (2) to refuse to admit it into member
ship 90 to demand that all members join in
refusing to ship to it supplies of any kind that
could help it miltarily, and (4) to adopt reso-
luton "condemning the infamous lies" it has
been spewing out, along with the Kremlin, against
the United States.
OF course, it is by no means inconcevable
that the Chinese Communists, by going all-out,
will be able to force the United Nations from
Korea. But military defeat of that sort-a
lost battle, not lost war-will be something
that the U. N. can endure If it is fortnight and
courageous enough to act along the lines sug-
gested by Mr. Hoover in order to save itself from
a moral defeat and the collapse of its whole
stature before the eyes of the world Certainly,
If it is to survive at all, it cannot put up much
longer with Peiping's criminal conduct.