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6 (Sc 2) Statesman; Sa!tru Or Moa July 12, 1954 Dictatorial China Farm Policy Brings Food Riots, Bloodshed WASHINGTON ( The U.S. Information Agency (USIA) says Communist China's highhanded farm policy, based oa virtual state seizure of rice and other grains to pay for imported tools of. war, is falling flat on its face. The agency is beaming overseas Adm. Radford Opposes Trade With Commies WASHINGTON tfu The Senate Foreign Relations Committee Sun day quoted Adm. Arthur W. Rad ford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as opposing any trade with Communist areas now. : "I do not think we ought to trade with the Communist coun tries until there is some indica tion on their part that they are sot our deadly enemies," Radford said. His statement was in testimony June 9 at a closed door committee bearing on the foreign aid bill, the censored transcript of which the committee made public Sunday. ! In his testimony Radford said some persons have argued that . trade with the Reds is all right if it results in a net advantage to this country. But the military men feel it is a very dangerous thing." be said. Big chunks of Radford's testi mony concerning cold war strat egy and problems were censored out of the public record ior secur ity reasons. But the committee quoted him as saying that "I get the same feeling" expressed to him' by Sen. Fulbright (D-Ark) that "our allies are drifting away from us." "As a nation, we have not been making progress in our alliances in the last year or two and I won der what in the world is the mat ter," Fu2right said. "I am more disturbed and depressed than I have been in a king time about where we go or what we do about it. We have done nothing dreadful, yet our Allies are drifting away from usV To which Radford said: "I get the same feeling from reading papers that you do." "The committee also made pub-' lie, testimony by Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther, supreme Aflied com mander in Europe, which pictured Russia's armed forces as getting tougher but not larger. . "What the Soviets are increasing, however, is the size of their satel lite forces," Gruenther said. He said the divisions being 'organized in : satellite rjeas are not first class, and the Russians are "hav ing some pains" about the satellite fighting forces. "They do not regard them as dependable enough they are still worried about it," he added. a radio commentary whidh it says quotes the Communist Chinese themselves to back up its broad casts. Commenting on the seven months since Mao Tse-Tung ordered all rice and other grain sold to the Peiping government at low. fixed prices, the USIA cited Communist press and radio reports of food riots. , bloodshed : and brutal re prisals. 4t;.:'K'-.'-s--,,i.s-f In trying-to carry out Mao's am bitious industrial armaments pro gram, the USIA said, the Peiping regime has set Up. Soviet Russia as its. prime example and inspira tion. . . Y ' -Stronger Guide Reeded But the USIA commentary sug gests Mao 'might have chosen a stronger guiding light. "The U.S.S.R. is a very rich OPERATION SUCCESSFUL LUSK, Wyo. W Ralph Bonner. IS, performed a Caesarian, opera tion and all three babies have survived.) Ralph shot a jackrabbit and performed the operation with his pocket knife. He has nursed the little bunnies with a medicine dropper. country, and it has less than half as many mouths to feed as has China." goes the USIA commen tary. -,. "Yet if the Soviets cannot make collectivization produce enough food, now can the Mao regime hone to do so? The relatively advanced Soviet Union has failed with this system. So bow can Red China, pioacnng along in boviet footsteps, hope to succeed?" Mounting Resistance Red China's export of food in the face of widescale shortages bas brought mounting resistance, the USIA said.?. Y" ' Communist newspapers reported food riots S ' continuing for three months Jn three districts of Kansu, it said, ana in Hunan province hungry peasants reportedly, tried to kidnap Red officials while other peasants were caught trying to make illegal arms and stir up re volt The Communist paper Kwangsi Daily in Wanning, the USIA added. reported 16 peasant leaders were shot for refusing an order, and said 6,000 peasant armed with sickles and stolen firearms took on troops of the Chinese Red Army in a week-long battle. Modern Poets Lack' Zip, Romantic Didoes REDLANDS, . Calif. INS) The zip and romantic-didoes of poetry of yesteryear is . sadly lacking among poets of today. The criticism came from Dr. Law rence E. Nelson, chairman of the University of Redlands Brown ing poetry contest The professor lamented; "It's been years since I've been sent butterfly wings or jaybird feathers by contestants. Poets don't send them any more. 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