Evening star., 1951-02-24
By Arthur Moore
North American Newspaper Alliance

AT SEA, OFF THE CHINA
COAST, Feb. 5 Delayed. China's
main immediate grievance against
the United States lies in her firm
belief that it still is supplying
Chang Kai-shek with war mate
rial and dreams of helping him
reconquer the mainland and to
become an American puppet pill
laying his countrymen while con-
ceding to Americans a dominant
position in foreign trade and the
exploitation of China,s resources.
The second grievance is a belief
that the United States intends to
make similar use of President
Syngman Rhee in Korea. General
Macarthur, who appears to have
regarded Chang and Rhee as for
mer wartime allies to whom he
owed some personal loyalty. gave
some ground for suspicion by his
visit to Formosa and his eulogy
of Chang.
The Chinese are not well in
formed about American internal
politics and the fact that Presi-
dent Truman publicly rebuked
Gen. Macarthur for an unauthor-
lied message published in the
United States passed unnoticed as
did much else, including the fact
that there are no American troops
in Formosa.
They believe Chang and Presi-
dent Rhee. clinging to Gen. Mac
Arthur, are on Americas back,
and they see little difference be-
tween Senator Mccarthy and
President Truman or Secretary of
State Acheson.
America Seen As Ogre.
America is an ogre. Walls in
Peiping and Tientsin display post
ers, and papers publish cartoons
representing American imperial
lists as brutal tyrants performing
unspeakable outrages and drip
ping with the blood Of their vic
Tins.
Recently there was "hate
week" and the entire nation is
being taught-arld this in time
Of peace-to hate another nation.
Sunday, January %. was a day
of women's professions in protest
against the United States. At half
past nine in the morning I drove
out to see the summer palace. I
met long files of women marching
to the Forbidden City with bands
and banners, songs and slogans.
When returned in the after
noon the professions still were
going on. In late afternoon I went
shopping in Morrison street and
covered the market and again met
thousands on my way. As a meth
cd Of preaching world peace the
inculcation of hate seemed to me
Of doubtful efficacy. But there also
were jolly children dancing the
Yang-ke, the popular peasant
dance the Army has brought from
the country to the towns.
Seeds of Hatred Sown.
The whole parade was a days
outing and fun and probably when
Chinese American friendship is
renewed as 1t is bound to be
sooner or later, the seeds of hatred
will prove to have taken no deep
root. Public opinion can shift
quickly. The Yankees may be in
vited to dance the Yang-ke.
At present the United States is
pictured as a kind of inferno. For
a Chinese merchant to go there
on business or a student to study
is impossible and to reveal that
the thought Of such madness could
enter his head would be social
suicide. No sane man would go
to hell voluntarily.
The saying that every people
gets the government it deserves
does not commend itself. There
are good people" in America
those. for example. who read the
Daily Worker-but they are bound
| in the chains of the capitalist
oppressors and can assert them
selves only by revolution.
How has this conception of the
United States arisen? It has been
suggested to me that a low type
! of American who haunted Shang-
hal has some responsibility