The daily record., 1953-06-01
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CHURCHILL AND CHINA

WHEN EISSlUcllI 6LSSIlnOWSI o1sc
down to discuss China, Korea, For
mosa, Malaga and Indo China with
Winston Churchill at Bermuda, he
VIII face one of the three men re-
Sponsible for the turmoil i'll Asia
The other two are dead
Churchill is a European, philo-
sophically and politically. He sees
Europe as broad civilizaGlon, q
syncre5iSm of Jerusalem, Athens
and Rome, homogeneous In all es-
sentials, While varying in some de-
tails of expression. To ore holding
such a pniioSophic and historical
view, the United States is no more
thar an offshoot of Europe If,
therefore, the European civiliza-
ton is endangered by an over
whelming new civilization - the
Marxist Slavic-Sinic Civilization
Churchill's view would be that no
sacrifice can be too great TO save
Western Christendom.
To one VINO thinks n such terms,
Asia is not worth the battle. 1t is
merely a market place. The dlvec-
sion of focus from Europe 10 Asia,
he would regard as imperiling civ
iliz1tion of advertisement Un-
fortunately, Churchill has never
been able to get away from Asia,
which obtrudeS itself more poig-
nantly into the affairs of our world
each year. Undoubtedly, Churc-
hill, as well as Roosevelt, imagined
that he had settled the course of
human history by the appeasement
of Stain at Yalta.
Roosevelt is dead, but Churchill
knows that Yalta settled nothing
other than this: it gave Stain the
opportunity and freedom to en-
gage in an imperialistic venture in
ASIA. Stains enormous successes
established that neither Roosevelt
nor Churchill had any concept Of
the nature of the history of Rus
sia or of the Marxist revolutlo l.
Stain never once departed from
the MarXist-Leninist concept Of
the world revolution nor is it to
be believed that either MalenKov
or Molotov, whichever prevails,
Will depart from it.
This concept requires that the
ertire world all the peoples, all
nations be won over by whatever
means, war, revolution, civil wal,
inflltration, corruption, to an &C
ceptance of the MARKHAM philo-
sophy and methodology of life.
This involves, on the philosopnic
side, the total elimination of Juueo-
Christianity and of Islam and 9TH
e. "superStitions" on the economic
side, it means the immediate sub
stitution of Socialism for capital
ISM, and the eventual establish
ment of Communism everywhere.
The Kremlin would thus become
the heart of a Marxist world. 1t
would be One World.
From this position the Russian
will not retreat unless they are
defeated. They will often give the
appearance of retreating in order
to place themselves in better
position to achieve their aims.
Whenever they give the appearance
of retreating, Western statesmen,
particularly Winston Churchill,
leap into Russia's cleverly-ar-
ranged traps. One would imagine
that Churchill, having been trick
ed at Teheran and Yalta and at
other conferences, would become
wary.
Actually, his numerous defeats
at conferences with the Russians
have taught him nothing because
he does not want to learn. The rea-
son is that his attention is focus
sed solely on Europe, which to
him is not only the center OF the
world, but all that is important
in the world. If he can win time
for Europe, he is apparently sure
that ultimately superior civlllza-
ton will win over an inferior one.
In this sense, and only in this
sense, Churchill will serve the
Kremlin at the Bermuda Con-
ference. His principal task will be
to break the diplomatic log-jam by
having Soviet China recognized by
the United Nations. He will have
a claim upon this country which
he will undoubtedly press upon
President Eisenhower, namely, that
Acheson promised that the United
States would recognize Soviet Chi
ma one month after the British
did - a promise which the United
States did not keep.
However, the issue at Bermuda
will be the expansion of the Soviet
Empire to the whole of Asia with
our consent. Out of it will come
trade not only for Great Britain
but for the United States, and it
can be argued, from the short
view, that the trade can Temporal
rily be a compensation for the
diplomatic defeat.
1 do not believe that Churchill
will resort to the argument that
Mao Tze-tung may sooner or later
become Titoist. After all, he is
a man Of good taste. Yet, that un-
tenable theory is wishfully held
in many European and American
quarters.
Eisenhower will have to be bril-
liantly briefed to offset Churchill's
arguments. The danger is thai
vy1ot nov AZ thn moment. aDpea,