Evening star., 1955-02-03
Islands Won't Buy
Chinese Cease-Fire
Long, KnowIand Says

LOny NIlUWlullu JoyS
Senate Minority Leader Know
land last night said a surrender
to Communist control of Quemoy
and the Matsu islands. as a
price for settlement Of the For
mosa dispute, would serve only
as a temporary cease-flre and
would not dispel for long" Red
China's dream of expansion in
the Far East. |
Senator Knowland's statement
came on the heels of reports
from London that the conferees
at the meeting there OF the
Commemorative nine Prime
Ministers are hopeful the United |
States or the United Nations will
accept surrender of the islands
as the price for cease-fire.
The Knowland statement was
made at the Nations first Lin
coin Day dinner of 1855, held at
the Congressional Country Club
in Montgomery County. The
county's Republican organizations
sponsored the affair. About 500
persons attended.
III May Talk and Fire.
1--WE must recognize" Senator
Knowland said, that while Red
China may accept a U. n. invita-
ton to discuss a cease-f1re, Chou
En-lai's army may. at that very
moment, be firing it's guns back
home.
THAT was what she did while
negotiating at Panmunjom and
Geneva"
The loss of the islands, the
Senator believes, would sink
fatal wedge into the heart OF our
whole defense chain in the Pa
cif1c."
And I can tell you this" he
declared. IF the Air Force Is
challenged and hit upon during
this dispute, we are not going
to sit there like sitting ducks.
Our planes will fire back and we
will shoot back straight"
Critical Of Nehru.
The California Republican also
struck out-for the first time
publicly-at India's Prime Min
lister Nehru. He hit at Demo-
cratic policies used in the fight
ing in Korea and took to task
the critics of President Eisen-
hower's recent resolution draw
ing a fighting line in the For
mosa dispute.
He also renewed his pledge to
soppose admission of Red China
into the U. N.
! The Senator bore down on
] 'our associates in the U. N. and
: elsewhere who still seek appease-
meht" of Russia and Red China.
/ "Our so -called neutraliSt
friends, such as India" he said,
would have us hand over Que
s moy and the Matsus in payment
! for a cease-fire, and that would
be fatal. -..-
"Appeasement is not and
! never has been the road to peace.
! It is only a surrender on the
! installment plan," the Senator
Z said.
And I've never seen." he
added. "a suggestion from Nehru
that called for the Communists
to give up some of their terri
tory and free some of their
people"
In an obvious reference to
policies used by the Deliberate
Party in the fighting in Korea,
Senator Knowland said that if
trouble occurs in the Pacific
the Chinese Reds will have to
start it, but never again will
they have a Yalu River. sanctuary
behind which they can run fol
safety"
Praise for Eisenhower.
Senator Knowland praised thu
accomplishments and abilities o.
President Eisenhower. He par
. ticularly praised the President
Formosa resolution and hailet
the fact that it was presented
to the Congress before the &C
tiorr was taken.
The country club gatherin
gave the Senator its loudest ap
plause when he said:
'As long as l have a voice an
q vote in the United States Sen
ate ! will oppose the admission
of Red China into the U. NJ"
Representative Hyde, Repuh
lican, of Maryland was maSte
of ceremonies. Other guests wer
Mrs. KnoWland, wife of the Sen
ator: Senators Butler and Beal
Republicans, of Maryland; Rer
resentative Devereaux, Reput
lican, of Maryland; Miss Ros
Dawson, Reception Committe
chairman; Walter w. Dawson
: State Central Committee chail
man, and George C. Warne
State Central Committee trea.
lIrer.