Evening star., 1952-01-13
THE SUNDAY STAR c.
Washington, D. G.
SUNDAY. JANUARY Is, 1859
Churchill Visit:
Teamwork Outlook
Has Frightened
By Gornett D. Homer

Laying the foundations for better
teamwork was the basic aim Of the
conferences between President Tru-
man and British Prime Minister
Winston Churchill. American oficials
who took part in the talks believe
that aim was achieved. They say
that American and British policies
are headed much more in the same
direction now than they were before
Mr.. Churchill came here.
Plenty Of differences In approach to
specific problems still exist-and will
continue to exist. But the President
and Prime Minister have laid down
the rule that these divergent views
must be subordinated to the common
aim OF presenting q united front to
Communist aggression-and that diff
ferences over specific issues must be
talked out in advance Of crises where
ever possible. SO that the United
States and Britain will not be cross
ing each other up.
Improved Teomwork ..-.
This determination is expected to
lead to closer teamwork than the
United States was able to achieve
with the recent Labor government in
Britain under Mr.. Churchill's prede-
cesSor as Prime Minister, Clement
Attlee. The improvement should show
up most clearly in the troubled Mid
die East and Far East.
The sharpest split in American and
British policies has been in relations
with China. Britain, under the Att
lee government, gave early diplo-
matte recognition to the Chinese
Communist regime. The United
States is firm in refusing to recog-
nize the Chinese Reds.
Actually, relations between Britain
and Communist China never
amounted to much. It is an unreal,
paper" relationship. The Conn
munists, in effect, have not recog-
nized the British recognition. There
has been no exchange of Ambassa-
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First Things First
American officials have felt that
in the past the British seemed to give
to their Communist China relations
more considerate attention than the
actual state of affairs warranted.
The Truman-C Churchill talks dis
closed, however, that now the Brit
ish are disposed to put first things
first. In the official communique
issued Wednesday about their four
days OF conferences, Mr.. Churchill
joined Mr.. Truman in declaring: I'VE
recognize that the overriding need
to counter the Communist threat in
that area (the Far East) transcends
such divergences as there are in our
policies toward China"
This does not mean any sudden
cancellation of the British diplo-
matte recognition Of the Peiping
regime. At the moment, neither
American nor British officials see
any particular reason for such Q
turn about. But the understanding
Is that If such action should become
necessary to meet the overriding
need" the British would give that
need precedence over their paper
relationship with Peiping.
Conservative View
Mr.. Churchill and his brilliant
Foreign Secretary. Anthony Eden, do
not acknowledge that it was wrong
for Britain'S Labor government to
recognize Communist China. They
think recognition probably was right,
from the British viewpoint. But they
believe it was mistake to take such
action while the United States pur-
sued an opposite course. In other
words, it was mistake to disrupt
American-British teamwork.
Another point where teamwork has
been lacking is Iran. Many Ameri-
can officials feel that the present
crisis there, with Britain's Anglo
1ranian Oil Co. driven out Of the
country in Trans oil naturalization
program, could have been averted II
the British had adopted more con-
ciliatory attitude at the start Of the
trouble. The dispute reached the
point where the pref Churchill British
government refused to try to nego-
tiate any more with Iranian Premier
Mossadegh. Now. Mr.. Churchill is
willing to have another shot at settle
ment-through efforts of the Inter-
national Bank. He joined Mr.. Tru-
man in publicly expressing hope that
the initiative taken by the bank will
lead to an acceptable solution Of the
problem.
The White House communique en-
phasized that the joint aim of this
country and Britain in the Middle
East is to promote the stability,
peaceful development and prosperity
Of the countries in that area. In the
teampork spirit, both governments
intend to demonstrate that they feel
this objective is more important than
any single issue that might arise.
Atomic CIorificotion
No concerted decisions Of q star.
tling nature were sought by the con-
ferences. But politically important
to Mr.. Churchill was reafiirmation
in the White House communique
that the use in an emergency" Of
American atomic bomber bases in
England will be a matter for "joint
decision" American officials thought
this was obvious, but were glad to
put it in writing.
Another agreement Of special eco
nomical importance to the British
was reached In the White House
talks, with details to be announced
later. The understanding is that the
United States will supply Britain
more steel in exchange for tin and
aluminium from the British Common.
wealth.
American officials were pleased
that Mr.. Churchill. whose govern
ment has been accused Of dragging
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