Evening star., 1951-06-06
Acheson Supports
United Nation S Peace
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that this (principle) said that it
should set up an appropriate body
which would include these people.
Now, appropriate body could be
a very much larger body, and in
deed it would have been our pur-
pose to have insisted that it
should have included all the pow
ers who are interested in -"
In replying to other questions
by Senator Russell, Secretary
AcheSon said the United States
did not originate the idea for the
postwar provisional government of
China to include Communist
members. He added that this was
a Chinese proposal worked out and
signed in general form in 1945.
.Formosa Patrol Explained.
He also testified that the 7th
Fleet, ordered to patrol the waters
around FormoSa when American
troops were sent into Korea, was
primarily for the purpose of de-
Tending the island against an at
tack and not for imposing any
limitations on Chang Kai-shek's
activities.
At the suggestion Of Senator
Russell, Mr.. Acheson read a tele-
gram dated March Is, 1949, from
an American Chamber of Com
merce "in one of the largest cities
of China" advocating that no fur
ther military aid be given Chang
Kai-shek's forces.
It charged that the NationalistS
had set up an administration to
distribute the aid which proved
inept, wasteful and corrupt" and
added that Chiang'S government
had never invested any of its own
money to make possible the utili-
zation of material and rehabilita-
ton projects.
It added that in North China
the Army had kept those areas
as virtual colonies and that it was
officered by men with "a single
minded objective, from generals
down, of amassing as much per-
sonal wealth as possible.
u. S. Support Criticized.
Through our support Of de-
cadent and Intellectual Nationalist
government we have, not without
a measure of truth, been accused
of being a party to the rape and
abandonment of a large part OF
China and the people therein to
communism, the telegram stated.
Senator Russell disclosed that
the telegram had been read in
closed sessions of both the Senate
Armed Services and Foreign Rela-
tions Committees and today Mr..
Acheson said he did not wish the
name of the city from whence
it came to be released because
am advised that we are not
sure that the people involved in
this are all in a safe place."
This stand by the Secretary
Immediately brought forth an
argument by Republican mem
bers that the telegram could have
been started by a fellow travel
er."
Mr.. Acheson said it was for
warded to the State Department
by the American consul in the city
where the Chamber of Commerce
was located.
Senator Smith, Republican, of
New Jersey, asked if the source of
the telegram was investigated and
Secretary Acheson replied that
he could not say whether such an
inquiry was made in China.
Agrees to Furnish Names.
Finally, Mr.. Acheson stated he
would be glad to furnish the
names of the American business
institutions which were members
of the Chamber, but added that
he hoped they would not be placed
in the public record.
At the outset of today's hearing
Chairman Russell asked Secretary
Acheson to give the circumstances
under which Gen. WI HSui-chuan
now Deputy Foreign Minister OF
Communist China, came to this
country last August to appear al
the United Nations.
The Secretary then read into
the record a telegram from Red
Chinese Foreign Minister Chou
En-lai, accusing the United States
with aggression in Korea. anc
specifically with preventing Com
munist liberation" of the Ma
tionalist stronghold on Formosa.
Mr.. Acheson then explained
that Ambassador Warren Austin
United States delegate to the U. N.
proposed that representative OF
Red China be invited to Lake
Success. and that Gen. WI par
ticipated in the various discus
sions during which the motion to
brand this country an aggressor
was voted down.
Brewster Attacks AcheSOn.
At yesterdays session. Sen
ator Brewster. Republican. OF
Name, took the Senate floor to
criticizes the Secretary's summar,
of China policy, after Mr.. Ache
son himself had faced sharper
and much more critical ques-
tions by both Democratic and Re-
publican members of the joint
committee probing the firing of
Gen. Macarthur and the whole
Far East course of action.
The Maine Republican called
MIR. Acheson's China testimony on
Monday "a miracle of contrived
confusion"
He challenged Mr.. Acheson's
statement that 1t. Gen. Albert c.
Wedemeyer did not recommend