Evening star., 1951-10-09
No Top State Officials
Urged Recognizing
Red China, Rusk Says

NCu VliIiIuv NuSN SQYS
Assistant Secretary of State
Dean Rusk today told a Senate
Foreign Relations subcommittee
that to the best of his knowledge
no top State Department officials
ever at any time urged the recog-
milton of Communist China.
Mr.. Rusk, the Assistant Secre-
tary for Far Eastern Affairs. teSti-
fled in an executive session but
Chairman Sparkman later made
public portions of his statement.
The subcommittee, which Is con-
sidering the nomination of AM
bassador at Large Philip c. JessupI
as a United Nations delegate,
questioned the witness closely
about the State Department atti-
tude toward the. Peiping regime.
Chairman Sparkman said that
Mr.. Rusk brought with him
copies of secret cablegrams and
memoranda between the United
States and Great Britain, and
other nations on the matter.
Fails to Find Evidence
Senator Brewster, Republican,
of Maine, who questioned DR..
JesSup when he was on the stand
last week, told reporters that
there was no indication in any
of the documents we saw that
any decision ever was reached (by
the State Department. to recog-
nize Communist China"
But he added quickly that there
had been conversation about rec
ognition and that there was evi-
dence that consideration was
given" to such a step.
Chairman Sparkman then inter-
jected that perhaps the word
consideration" crept into the
Jessup hearing unfortunately. He
said that under certain interpre-
tations consideration was given,
but it had never been the inten-
tion to recognize the Chinese Reds.
The subcommittee asked Mr..
Rusk to see whether the State De-
partment policy committee On the
Far East had any recorded Min
utes. DR.. JeSSup, DR.. Raymond
Fosdick, former head of the Rock
efeller Foundation, and DR.. Ever
EFT Case, president of Colgate Uni
versity. were members of the COM
mittee.
Avoids Nomination Issue.
In more than seven hours of
heated testimony yesterday, Mr..
Stassen turned aside request
after request that he state
whether he felt DR.. Jessup's nomi-
nation should be confirmed or re-
jected. The president of the Uni
verslty of Pennsylvania insisted
the subcommittee draw its own
conclusions about his contentious
that DR.. Jessup played a major
part in a policy which he said had
the purpose of Undermining" Ma
tionalist China in favor of the Red
government.
Reviewing the entire history of
the United States attitude toward
China. Mr.. Stassen alluded at one
point to DR.. Jessup's testimony
that the State Department had
never considered recognizing Red
China.
i knew that was false" the
witness declared.
In surprise move, Senator
Sparkman then read at length
from the previously undisclosed
testimony of Secretary Acheson
at the closed January session.
The portion read by Senator
Sparkman covered Mr.. Acheson's
description of conferences with
allied representatives. The quo
tations said:
Our position has been in the
first place that nobody will gain
any advantage by going on and
recognizing the Communists.
Therefore, our first effort was to
make clear this isn't a race. The
Communists are going to act en-
tirely in accordance with their
own interests. They will not be
affected in the slightest whit
whether country A, B or c is the
first one. Nor will they be con- ;
cerned whether any one recog-
nizes them. They would like to
be recognized, but they will give
you no favors for recognition.
Common Attitude Needed.
Secondly, this is what we say:
we think all our positions will be
strengthened if we can maintain q
common attitude about this until
one of two things happens. One
is until the Communists take
favorable position on recognizing
their foreign obligations, or at