The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1959-01-09
JOSEPH BREIG-
Keep Red China
Out OF U.N.

Secretary of State John Foster Dulles is perfectly
right, in my opinion, in spurning every suggestion
that the communist regime in China be recognized by
the us, and/or admitted to the United Nations.
It is true that the Red government is the de facto
government. That is, it is there; and thus far it has
successfully held the 900 million inhabitants in bond
age at the cost of millions of murders.
But the communist government is in China In the
same sense that an escaped convict might be in your
home, holding you and your wife and children as
hostages at gunpoint, and Subjecting the family to y
reign of sheer brute terror.
THE POLICE, of course, in such a situation would
talk with the thug by means of megaphones, and
would do everything possible to rescue the family.
But the police would not hobnob with the man, or
recognize him as in any way the. legitimate head of
Diplomatic recognition, and admission to the
UN, does involve a large measure OF acceptance OF a
government, at least by implication, as in some way
legitimate or at least tolerable. To deny this is to
deny reality.
It would be utter folly for the US. and other
free nations to extend any such acceptance to the
Red Chinese regime. To do that would be to confess
moral bankruptcy and international cynicism at a
time when morality is more vitality important even
than usual.
CERTAIN INTELLEcTUALs, the extent of whose
influence is anypodvs guess, are contendlng that
recognition and UN admission are nothing more than
a facing of the fact that a government is in control
of a country. -
Either these people have curiously short men,
cries, or they are Intellectually crooked They took
precisely the opposite position with respect to the
Franco regime in Spain. 1t is hardly too much to say
that they frothed at the mouth against Franco.
They based their whole case on morality. Not
for a moment did they deny that Franco was in
power. and securely so. But in their eyes-to sim
pity the matter-Franco was a bad guy, and bad
gHys Sn0''o not DC recognized o A0'''''S' = ''
INDEED, they carried their selective moral indig-
nation to such lengths that they gulled and presumed
the UN into the most ludicrous action it has ever
taken refer to the DreDOSterOuS bOycOtt against
Spain.
Spain. a nation of 20 million persons, bled white
by the civil war, and possessing no armed forces OF
any consequence in international relations, was ostra-
cized by the United Nations as, of all things, a menace
of world peace.
Thus did a certain type of intellectual prove
to everybody's satisfaction that whatever else an intel
lectual may be capable of, one thing is certain
this kind Of intellectual can make a towering fool
of himself and of anybody who follows him.
RATHER THAN admitting a bandit government
like Red China's what the UN ought to be doing, IT
the matter be looked at abstractly is getting rid of
the gangster members it already has-above all the
Soviet regime.
Unfortunately, the U. S. recognized the Soviets
in a moment of depression-bo born weakness In the
1905. And in the 1940's, it was too much to hope
that the UN would be formed without the Soviet
Union
Thus we find ourselves rather stuck with the
USSR, and with some of the Satellite puppet- govern
ments. But that does not mean that we should recog-
nize or accept any more regimes OF the same type.
Qu1tN t"S
RED CHINA made war on the United Nations
and on American troops who were the backbone of
the UN forces in Korea. Red China has done abso-
lutely nothing to purge itself of that international
crime. 49,
Elementary moral sense demands that we take
the position taken by Secretary Dulles-we will not
extend diplomatic relations to Red China, and we
will not admit that government to the UN. We will
talk to Red China only through a megaphone.
International politics, like local and national poll
tics makes for some strange bedfellows. But there is
always a limit beyond which no decent nation or
statesman can go. That limit is reached long before
we get to Red China.
And by the bye, it seems to me that the practice
of Americans allowing themselves to be used as
sounding boards by Soviet boss Khrushchev has long
since passed the point of elementary respect for ones
self and for America. If Khrushchev wants to talk to
Americans. we have an elected government to which
he can address himself.
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