Evening star., 1951-06-19
Foreign Policy


Foreign Policy
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the United States and the free
world in the Far East"
Arms Drive Urged.
4. The United States and other
free nations should accelerate
their rearmament program to re-
move all doubts in the Far East
about the strength of the free
world.
5. The free world should take
the initiative in Southeast Asia by
strong moral and economic sup
port" of the free countries in that
area as a means of encouraging
resistance to Communist aggres-
sion in the Far East.
6. The United Nations allies
should continue to inf1ict heavy
losses in Korea on the Chinese
Communists in the hopes of fore
ing the Peiping regime to agree
to negotiations for peace.
Z. The democratic world is
faced with the need of taking the
initiative" which Russia has
maintained and cleverly ex-
Iploited for a considerable period
of time"
8. Communist conquest of In
donesia and Southeast Asia would
result in vast problems for the free
world and the probable loss Of
India.
8. The combined Chiefs of Staff
at the 1943 Cairo conference ad-
vised against Soviet Russia's entry
into the war against Japan be-
cause of supply difficulties and So
lviet weakness in the Far East at
that time.
Opposes Recognition.
Admiral Badger said he was OPP
posed to recognition of Red
China. Such recognition. he add
ed, of q government 80 unpopu-
lar. so tyrannical, and so at odds
with all acceptable principles of
civilization" would result in loss
of Western prestige.
On the possibility of counter
revolution against the Communist
regime. Admiral Badger said:
I'm my opinion, the high per-
Icentage of anti Communist feeling
lin South China gives the posi-
bility of rolling the iron curtain
back at least to the Yangtze and
of relieving the pressure from the
border nations of Southeast Asia.
The recent Chinese reverses in
Korea are strengthening these
chances. The remarkable increase
in the welfare of the people of
Formosa during recent months is
known widely on the mainland
and is spur to reaction"
China Could Be Liability.
Admiral Badger said it was un-
fortunate that postwar develop
ments turned over the strategically
important areas of Manchuria and
Eastern Mongolia to Soviet Rus
Sia. But he emphasized that
China from the Great Wall to the
borders of Burma and 1ndo- China
could be considered an area of
possible revolutionary movement
against their present Communist
masters"
He said the people of North
China are desperately unhappy
at their present lot" and would
enthusiastically welcome the re-
turn Of some of their former local
leaders"
AS for South China, Admiral
Badger said reliable reports" in
dicate that the Communist re-
ALLEGATION of land and the nquida-
ton Of land owners have brought
about mo perceptible advantages,
and in many areas, result in a
lowering of conditions under
which the majority must endure" !"
In case Of war China might
prove more of a liability than an
asset to Russia, he indicated. The
Indonesian frontier, he said, "cuts
of the availability of many i'm
portant strategic materials. :"
China, he added, would impose
the burden of flow from Russian
sources of such materials and of
arms and Of ammunition, instead
of providing a source of supply
flowing in the other direction.
Dictated by Food Needs.
It is China's food requirements,
rather than a quest for rubber,
oil or tin which may dictate the
pattern of Communist expansion
in the Far East, Admiral Badger
said. He told the committee:
a.. the surplus rice production
of Siam and Burma is, in my opin-
ion, why Communist China, unas-
sisted economically by modern
productive technique, might ulti-
mately be coerced to invade and
establish control over these rice
bowls of the Orient"
The witness described Indo-
China as an area primarily influ-
enced by anti-colonial feeling
They look on the Nationalist gov
ernment, supported by French CO.
lonial armies, as the 'proponent of
continuation of colonialism in the
Far East" he said.
"On the other hand" he added
"they view the opposing Commu.
mist trained leader, Ho Chi Mini
less in the light of being a Com
munist than in the light of his
being champion of the people
attempting to throw out the
French"
| The witness proposed as a solu-
ltion to this problem olIick and