Evening star., 1951-01-30
Turgets For Red Chno-II
Japanese Think They Are Last
|On Asia Communist Timetable

1ul thinking. American expulsion
from Korea is No. / on the Pei
ping regimes list of requirements.
After Korea, three other prof.
ects require completion: the inva-
sion OF Formosa and the liquida-
tion Of the last vestiges of the
Chang Kai-shek regime: mill
tary assistance to Ho Chi Mini
to enable him to push the French
out OF Indo-China; the occupa-
ton Of Tibet.
Burma apears next on the Peip-
ing timetable. followed by Siam,
Malaga. Indonesia and the Philip
pines. The two extremities. India
and Japan-last Asiastic bastions
OF western influence and defense
would be attacked last.
The Communist Party of Bur-
ma is divided into two factions,
the Red or Tito wing and the
White or Stalinists. Also, there
are 2 million Karens who hate
the Burmese and are continuously
rising against the government.
The Chinese Communists have
had some success in bringing
these three groups to cooperate
with them.
Bangkok Full of Spies.
Since VI day Bangkok has
served as an international listen
ing post. Its hotel lobbies are
crowded with spies and counter
spies. The Russian embassy there
is one Of the biggest in Asia. The
pro- Communist Chinese popula-
ton in Siam is the largest over
seas Chinese community in the
world. Premier Pibul has five
divisions of poorly equipped troops
that would keel over under the
Red dragons hiss.
The Chinese Communists are
far more subtle in their strategy
OF aggrandiZement than were the
Japanese. The Chinese have the
Communist parties and Nation
alist movements among their
neighbors carry most of the load.
Only If they feel themselvs
threatened. as in Korea, do they
openly interfere. The Japanese
crossed international boundaries
first and then tried to win the
local populations over.
AS for Japan. the world Com
hierarchy will undoubtedly
call for resumption of propagan-
da and agitation. Some have
talked Of mobilizing the million
Koreans now living in Japan to
lead a revolution from the inside.
But the Koreans are too poor and
ignorant to be of much use even
as shock troops. The Reds will try
to profit from the japanese ma
tendencies with such
anti-American slogans as Japan
FOR the japanese" and mo more
wars" But the japanese are too
politically advanced to fall prey to
a fifth column.
Japanese Apparently Split.
If Japan ever falls within the
Communist orbit it will be by a
frontal attack. The Tokyo paper,
Yomiuri, reports that 10000 JAP
anese prisoners of war and civil
ians have been drafted into the
Chinese Communist Sd and 4th
Field armies. Thirty thousand of
these are said to be in Korea serv-
ing as auxiliary troops behind the
lines in the Quartermaster and
Transportation Corps. The other
10000 are undergoing six months
of training in Manchuria. Six
thousand political agents are car
rying out thought education"
among these Jap volunteers.
The Japanese seem to suffer
from the same split of apprehen-
sion and hope over the Chinese
Communists as do many Ameri-
cans. On one hand. Red Chinese
victories in Korea frighten the
japanese as they bring the Chi
nese soldiers that much nearer to
Nippon's shores. On the other
hand, the Japanese believe the
Chinese are too practical not to
take advantage of Japan's indus
trial capacity. To whom will they
sell their soybeans if not to us?
the japanese ask. Who will fur
nish them with cheap manufac-
tured goods, If not us? they con-
tinue. When it Is suggested that
perhaps the Chinese will trade
only with a Communist Japan,
the Japanese find no answer.