The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-06-09
T H F. S E D AY S By GEORGE E. sOHOLsKY
l. SOKOLSKY
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llaces, he did not provide evidence of an understanding of the spirit )f the Chinese people.
 His testimony, however, makes tartlin2 omissions, perhaps be- ause he is a lawyer who writes lis brief to conform to the neces- ties of his case.
 Fer instance, MT. Acheson notes hat by 1S45, the Chinese National sts will to fight had degenerated eriously. All this is true, but not he whole truth. Let US put il hronologically:
 L From 1926 to this very day Nationalist China has been at war with the Chinese Communists;
 2. From September 19, 1881 until August IA. 1945 V-J Day), Nation dist China was at war with Japan;
 3. The United States entered that var on December 8, 1941; Soviet lussa entered that war on August ], l945. Therefore, Nationalist Chi "a was at war with Japan, alone nd unaided, for more than 10 years eiore we joined that country as an lily and fought for almost four 5ears alongside us, and for six ears against the Communists since hen.
 Is there any wonder that Nation list China vas tired; that its ar nies had suffered war-fatigue; that ts rccple waited peace at any rice?
 Dean Acheson omitted this chon- logy rom his statement and there ore lis statement lacks coherence One might ask, why, if the Chi lese fought Japan for IA years, die hey stop fighting the Russians? The answer could be that they were worn out. That, of course, was he answer.
 Again, Dean Acheson stated:
 "The Yalta agreements were made n the very early part of 1945. a.er on. in August of '45, treaties were signed between the Chinese Jationalist government and the oviet Union, which grew out of nd were based upon these Yalta greements."
 Ile omitted to say that it was he President of the United States vho pressed China, then a country lependent upon US, to accept the Russian treaty to which Acheson efers. Tn fact, the Yalta agree nent, signed by Joseph V. Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill stipulated as follows:
 Tt is understood, that the agree nent concerning outer Mongolia and the ports and railroads referred to above will require concurrence of Ceneralissiro Chiang Kai-Shek. The President will take measures n order to obtain this concurrence ln advice from Marshal Stalin.
 The heads of the three great ,owess have agreed that these claims of the Soviet Union shall be unquestionably fulfilled after Jap m has been defeated.
 For it's part the Soviet Urlcn ex- lresses it's readiness to conclude with the National government of China a pact of friendship and lliance between the U.S.S.R. and China in order to render assist lnce to China with it's armed for ces for the purpose of llberating China from the Japanese yoke"
 I wish to repeat, for emphasis, his one sentence:
 $. The President will take measures in order to obtain this concurrence on advice from Mar hal Stalin.''
 Chiang Kai-Shek was in no po- ;ition at that time, or at any time, to flout Franklin D. Roosevelt. The most he could do was to hope that liter his country had fought so ,allantly against Japan, 1t would not be thrown as bone to Stalin.
 It is a little difficult to under tand Dean Acbeson's omission of hese facts. He kncws all about hem and he should have included hem in the evidence.
 Ill another place, Dean Acheson said:
 The Russians tcok the same atti- 5udc toward these rights that the Chinese took toward their rights FoDonosa.
 "The Russians had lost theirs tc yhe Japanese hy war in 1904; the Chinese had lost theirs to the Jap ,ncse by war in 1895.
 Russia made it's claim for those ights. and the claims were gran .ed at this meeting at Yalta."
 Now. there is long history con- nected with the Russe-Japanese war of 1904, settled by the treaty f Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1905. MT. Acheson speaks as though Manchuria, the cities of Port Ar thur and Dairen and the Chinese Eastern railroad were Russian. They were Chinese.
 Russia stole them from China, as result of the Sino-Japanese War, in 1896 by corruption, bribery and