Evening star., 1951-02-24
Behind the Bomboo curtoin-IIl
Chinese Communists ViewRhe
AS u. S. Puppet, Ignore DenioIs

Shanghai had the reputation Of
being one of the most vicious cities
in the world and among its gang
sters engaged in dope traffic and
the white slave market Americans
were no doubt to be found. But
I don't believe the Chinese judged
Americans by these crooks or the
latter could nullify the impression
produced by devoted educationists
and missionaries.
Wedding Is Cited.
1t is. however. true to say that,
whereas the Chinese do not accuse
big British companies of meddling
in politics in the present century,
American business gets no such
acquittal. However, a glaring ex-
ample produced is not in China
but in Latin America. There the
Chinese accuse Americans of max
ing and unmaking dictators to suit
their business interests and of
financing their partisans. In the
Chinese view the Monroe Doctrine,
originally designed to stop the
spread Of European colonization
land exploitation) in Central and
South America. has become a
charter for exploiters who under
its cover monopolize control. The
dominant position in which the
United States found itself at the
end of World War II when Europe
including Britain-lay stricken
has led her to set up a kind of
perverted Monroe Doctrine in
Asia, it is charged; in short, in
stead of the new world redressing
balance of the old as the British
statesman Canning hoped, the
United States wants to upset the
balance of the Old World.
This view of Latin America as
a mere appendage of the United
States leads to anger at the num-
ber of Latin "stooges" with voting
powers in the United Nations and
with their interference in the af-
fairs of Korea and now in the
affairs of China since they have
supported the American resolu-
ton naming China an aggressor.
Had I had the opportunity
could have told Chou En-lai. on
the basis Of my experience in
Korea, that several things are
not as they seem to him.
Plan Is Dropped.
When Gen. Macarthur returned
from his interview with President
Truman at Wake Island he spoke
some winged words to Syngman
Rhee, who then had to drop his
plan of appointing governors for
reoccupied provinces Of North
Korea.
I could have told Chou also that
an American administrator ap-
pointed to assist in setting up
interim civil authorities told me
ne would have nothing to do with
Rhee's nominees; that neither the
members of the former U. N. COM
mission nor the new commission
had the slightest use for Rhee:
that the South Korean assembly
(Which he is able to defy because,
like an American president, he is
elected for a term of years. has
no use for him and ordered him
to abolish martial law and to stop
daily executions which this sep
tuagenarian DEGREES: that the
American correspondents in Ko-
rea were as disguised as the rest
OF us at these executions; that
Brig. Brodie, commanding the
29th Commonwealth Brigade, for
bade executions from taking place
in his area and forced President
Rhee's police to release their VIC
TINS lest they be show themselves;
that the execution and burying
alive of prisoners by North Ko-
reans is equally savage and that
for cruelty there is not a pin to
choose between the North and
South.
Any idea that President Rhee
will politically survive the war
may be dismissed. The intention
OF the Korean commission is that
the South Korean and North Ko-
rean governments both will disap-
pear when free elections through
out the whole country have pro-
duced a constituent assembly,
which will install a provisional
government while it devises a con-
Stltution. But this knowledge
does not penetrate to Peiping.
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