Evening star., 1951-09-13
japan Peace Pact Gives
Lift to Administration
Problem Of Chino's Red Rule
Was Ducked Completely
The Political Mill
BY Gould Lincoln

The peace treaty with Japan, signed
at San Francisco. is properly recognized
as step Of great Importance in the
entire Asiastic situation. AS such, it gives
lift to the Truman administration.
There is still left, however, problem of
tremendous Importance " what to do
about the Red government in China. This
question was ducked completely. In some
measure it has been thrown in the lap
of Japan, whose economy must depend
in the long run on its ability to trade
with China. The expectation is that ia
pam will not recognize the Chinese Com
munist government for the present-but
how long that can prevail under eco
nomic pressure is a question in itself.
China still remains the great factor
which may determine whether Asia is to
come under Communist spread and DOM
ination. If and when japanese recogni-
tion of the Red Chinese government is
made, the extension of Communist in
iuence in Asia is bound to follow. The
United States continues to shy away
from moral and all-out support of the
Chinese Nationalist Government, now
located in Formosa. And, apparently, so
does the United Nations.
Only Way to Dent Reds.
Yet the Chinese Nationalists are to-
day the sole practical means of denting
Communist control of China. More re-
Gently this country has done more to aid
mllitarlly the NationaliSts on Formosa.
But the ban against Nationalist action
on the Chinese mainland still remains
in effect.
The Soviet Union and its satellite
countries, at the San Francisco Confer
ence, denounced the failure to invite
Red China to take part in the consum-
nation OF the Japanese peace treaty. The
United States, Britain and the other
Tree nations" stuck to their determine
ton not to have Red China take part in,
this peace treaty making. At the same
time they failed to bring in the Nation
alist Chinese governemt, although that
government is still a member of the
United Nations, and although that gov
ernment bore the brunt of the long war
against Japan, in which millions Of Chi
nese lost ther lives.
The war in Korea, which has devel-
oped into an unrecogniZed war with the
Communist government Of China, shows
few signs OF ending at an early date.
If that war continues indefinitely.
drastic demands that something be done
to bring it to a conclusion are sure to
arise. That might bring military action
resulting in an all-out war against Red
China. Under such conditions, the
Chinese Nationalists' armed forces
would be a logical threat to the Chinese
Reds and if unleashed might make it
possible to release all Southern China
from the Communist yoke. If that
should happen and a stable government
be established there, the problem Of
Formosa also might be settled At pres
ent, the United States is definitely COM
mitted to the proposition that Formosa
shall not be allowed to fall into the
hands of the Chinese Reds that in the
hands of the Communists, Formosa
would be tremendous threat to this
country as well as to Japan.
Too Much Domestic Politics.
At present there is under way another
effort in this country to show I'D the
Nationalist Government of China as
corrupt, and therefore unworthy of SUD-
port The effort, even if it does not sue
ceed, can have only one effect-a further
blow at the Nationalists and corollary
STRENGTHENING of the Chinese Com
muniStS.
Too much domestic politics in this
country enters into the whole picture
1t has been the contention of the Re-
publicanS that the Truman administra-
tion-and that of President Roosevelt
through its policies in China, greatly
aided the Communist victory in China
since the close of World War H. Fur
ther, it was the advice of Gen. Douglas
Macarthur and of Republican Leader Of
the House "Joe" Martin many months
ago that the Chinese Nationalist forces
on Formosa be used to help make war
against the Communists in Korea. This
advice, up to now, has been brushed
aside by the administration.
China, like Poland which was the first
to fight in Europe in the Second World
War, was the first to fight in Asia. And.
like Poland, China has been brought
within the Communist Iron Curtain.