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NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS 'ASSOCIATION EDITORIALS FREE PALAVER By Paul NATIONALIST CHINA COULD END THE WAR Fa m a e than a year thia colum n hat itcutly voiced the q>in- iai that the war in V ietnam cculd quickly becom e jittery, with Hand and the C om m unut cause d efeated , and above all with very little more la s d A m erican blood and lives, if the Amer ican government would aace m a e accept the o ily available path of hona and su p p o rt-e v en a very moderate and lim ited suppot— fa a Chinese N atiaialist cam paign to regain the main land of China and oust the cruel, tppressive, unwarranted Com* m unist regim e d Mao T se-tung. Our government is 100% re- spauible fa the dastardly betrayal d fine dd China into the hands d the Communists. General Marshall and the fair-haire< boys d air State Department who engineered the 1948 entry and take-over by the "agrarian reformers", facin g Chiang Kai* shek into ex ile in Formosa, knew all the tim e the usurpers were Communist aggressors— nothing less, nothing more. There is no lo gical reason or justification for the present (cfinson administration to be bound by any premises a com m it ments made to the lousy Communists— at that tim e or since that tim e. Yet right now President Jdmson is making his first presidential visit to fa e ig n sa ls by visiting a group o f South Asian countries presumably friendly to our war effort in V iet nam. The most striking thing about it is the bald absence of Taipei o n his itinerary; the wonderful little Republic where resides the most staunchly friendly government we have ever had in Asia. Why? Why, because he thinks Red China wouU >e mad at him if he went over and shook hands with General- simo Chiang K ai-shek. And they would. But they are mad at him anyway. And the easiest way to get them un-m ad is to let Chiang Kai-shek and his wonder fully fine and capable army destroy them, or chase them b a d into Siberia. Could it be done? In the late summer, Dean Clarence M anion visited Southeast Asia and he also went into several of the little nations there, talking to heads o f governments. He wound up talking to Chiang Kai-shek and the heads of the Nationalist China governm ent. Following it Dean Manion's report as told in the Manion Forum of September 18, 1966: DEAN MANION: While we were in T aiw an last month we had the pleasure and privilege of an inspiring visit with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, who had just been re-elected to his fourth term as President of the Republic of China. Here indeed, is one of the most d is tinguished men of all time. His own active caree r of leadership in the cause of Chinese unity and freedom m easures the full length of the relentless war that the Communists and Communism have waged against the civilized world for more than 50 years. Chiang Kai-shek is still fighting the Commu nists tooth and nail, and with a brighter p ro s pect of complete success now than ever before. I asked him to give me a message that I might transm it from him to the American people over his microphone. Here is his prompt answer, ranslated immediately and directly from Chi nese by his personal interpreter: "Please convey to the American people the profound gratitude of the government and people of the Republic of China for the generous help they have been giving us over the years in the form of economic aid and m ilitary assistance. It is with this help that we have built up Taiwan both as a showcase of economic and social prog ress as well as a m ilitary base for the defence of freedom in the western Pacific. Also kindly ask the American people to keep on helping us both morally and m a terially until we shall have recovered the Chinese mainland and restored freedom to the 600 million of our compatriots there. "Events since the end of World War n —the Korean War and the present war in Viet Nam, just to mention two of them —have conclusively proved that until and unless the Chinese Communist regim e in Peiping is overthrown and a peace-loving and democratic government is re-established on the mainland, there can be neither peace nor security anywhere in Asia. Our cause, therefore, is also the cause of the free world, and particularly of its leader, the United S tates.’’ The G eneralissim o's determination to destroy Chinese Communism and resto re freedom to mainland China is shared by every person we talked to in Taiwan. But are the m ilitary forces of F ree China capable of destroying the en trenched Communist regime on the mainland? For an official answer to this important ques tion I recorded an interview with General Yu 4 a Pak-chuan, V ice-C hief of the General Stall in the M inistry of National D efense for the Re public of China. Here is what we said: DEAN MANION: General Yu, your President has said, sev era l tim es to my knowledge, that there w ill be no peace in A sia until the Commu nist government on the Chinese mainland is d e stroyed. Now I know that you subscrib e to that, too. T ell our audience why this is so . GENERAL YU: W ell, the lea d ers of Mao T se-tung's regim e on the China mainland are suffering from what I call a trinity of d is e a se s , namely: arrogance, ignorance and fanaticism . B ecause of those d ise a se s they are embarking upon a very dangerous policy which w ill be dis-r astrous for the free world. They are m ilita r is tic , b ellico se and very unreasonable, and they always striv e for Communist domination of the world. DEAN MANION: It has been dem onstrated I think that you can’t have an agreem ent with them . How long have our d iscu ssio n s been going on sin ce Korea? GENERAL YU: Right. The United Statee Government h al been trying to negotiate with Communist China, I don’t know how many tim es now, and how many y e a r s, by sending the U. S. rep resen tative, an am bassador I b eliev e, to Warsaw. Right? And even now the negotiation has s till been going on and you don’t have any resu lt. DEAN MANION: So, the Chinese Communist apparatus on the mainland must be destroyed. Now, sin ce I’ve been here in Taiwan, I’ve s a t isfied m yself that you have here a very fine arm y and m ilitary fo rce that is ready and capa b le. Why don’t you go back to the mainland and when are you going? GENERAL YU: It’s a very good question. D octor. Our return on < w mainland is decided by four main factors : The fir st factor is con ditions on the China mainland ; the second factor is the global situation; the third is the combat readiness of our armed forces; and the fourth is the attitude of the United States Government. The Time Is Now «20 EJ.», 8 Io 9 DAILY ECONOMY MARKET Cin'r" COMPLETE BEVERAGE LINE FRUITS A PRODUCE DELICATESSEN hood and the conditions, the standard of living in Taiwan. Anybody who has been in Taiwan can testify to that. The product of Taiwan, esp ecially production of r ic e , food, the im provement of in d u stries, p rogress of education, everything—they ca ll it a m iracle in Taiwan. In other w ords, it is an ironical faot that the prom ises made by Mao T se-tung to the m a sses of people on China mainland has been done by our G eneralissim o here in Taiwan. DEAN MANION: And you have regular e le c tions hore, too? GENERAL YU: That's right. We have regu lar electio n s, and we have a free assem bly. We have a dem ocratic Government based on the W estern concept of dem ocracy. DEAN MANION: That d isp oses of two of your points. I think what we say about the third, nam ely, the attitude of R ussia, has a great deal to do with the attitude of the United States, which you mentioned as so important. The people in the United States, General, are wor ried to death about the p ossibility of R ussia's com ing into the war and starting a nuclear holocaust. I wish you would go into som e de ta il, to explain your conviction that this sim ply would not happen, even if you w ere in the p rocess of defeating Mao T se-tung on the mainland. What Others Are Saying-— HATFIELD-DUNCAN So far the U. S. Senate race between Governor Mark Hatfield and Democratic Representative Robert Duncan seems to hinge more on Viet Nam than the worth of either man as a United States Senator from Oregon. This, of course is not the only otherwise clear issue that has been clouded by Viet Nam. History Says—No Hatfield has raised some questions as to why we are in Viet Nam, why the problem should not be in the lap of the United Nations rather than ours, why we carry almost the entire bur den while other Pacific past nations and other allies ride virtually free. The thing that is wrong with these questions ie the interpretation some people give them, contending they mean Hatfield opposes our aims and purposes in Viet Nam and this is not true. Duncan, on the other hand, simply cheers the administration program on Viet Nam, asks no questions, and appears to be riding the more popular side of the issue. According to some polls, he is taking the vote away from Hatfield. We would rather have Hatfield in Washing ton, asking questions about Viet Nam, than to have Duncan there riding the Administration winds. GENERAL YU: D octor, I would like to give you my very frank opinion, not as a Chinese General, but purely as a m ilitary student who has taken a great in terest and who has made a profound study of m ilitary history. I can assu re you that R ussia, Soviet Russia will not We would rather, in fact, have Hatfield in Washington asking questions on all manner of national and international issues and voting his own mind, than to have Duncan there mere ly voting on all issues as the White House wish es. Now briefly, let me run over all those four come to war this time for the following reasons: facto rs.* With regard to the conditions on F irst, according to my study of m ilitary histo China mainland, I think it's a very favorable ry, a Country w ill not go to w ar, w ill not risk tim e now because the m a sses on the China a great war if it is run by two heads. Now mainland are discontented with Mao T se-tung's Russia is run by Kosygin and Brezhnev, so reg im e, and Mao T se-tung's im m ediate sub Russia w ill not e a sily go to war un less her ordinates are now struggling for power. So, national security is im m ediately threatened. we can say that on the China mainland now is Secondly, post World War II history te lls that chaos and confusion and discontent. w herever the United States has command of the In regard to the second factor, the global sea and a ir, Russia w ill not dare to risk a situation, I think it is favorable now, too, be c r is is with the United States. I b is is proved by cause Soviet R ussia is run by two heads, the Cuban c r is is when the R ussians turned tail Kosygin and Brezhnev. And when a country is when you w ere so firm on the Cuban c r is is be run by two heads it w ill not so e a sily go to war cause you dominate the air find sea in Cuba. un less its national secu rity is im m ediately The third reason is that R ussia w ill not be threatened. The third factor is the combat allowed to move troops into the China mainland readiness of armed fo r c es. I can a ssu re you, because Mao T se-tung won't let her do it, be D octor, that we are all ready to go at any cause no people on the China mainland w ill like moment. The fourth factor is the attitude of the to se e Russian troops on China mainland, and United States. W ell, I can say that if the United Mao T se-tung knows that. States give us m oral support to return on the , With regard to the question of whether or not mainland, it would be very much e a s ie r for us R ussia w ill start a nuclear war. I can assu re to do so . you now that R ussia w ill not do so un less her DEAN MANION: That's a very interesting own national security is threatened. I think you quartet of conditions. Let's go back to the fir st w ill agree with me that a country w ill only start one—conditions on the Chinese mainland. I a nuclear war when its national secu rity is think we can a ll take judicial notice of the fact threatened, because whoever sta rts a nuclear now that there is a warring amongst the s o - war runs the danger of suicide. called leadership and the things you have de Now, there are only three countries in this scribed are so . But, I've always been under * world who have the ability of starting nuclear the im p ression , General, that your s u c c e ss on w ar. One is the United States, the other Soviet the mainland, when you go back, w ill depend in R ussia, the third is Great Britain. I don't s e e large degree upon the attitude of the Chinese Kow our return to the mainland can threaten the people. Why do you expect, as many of you ap national security of any of th ese countries in parently here do expect, that they w ill r ise up any way. and w elcom e you? What is your b a sis for that I DEAN MANION: Thank you very much, Gen expectation? eral Yu, for this inform ative and helpful d is GENERAL YU: That's very sim p le, because cu ssion . When I get back to the United States I before Mao T se-tung took over the China main w ill try to do som ething about the attitude of land he gave the Chinese m a s se s —the sim ple our people and of our Government toward your people—all so rts of gilded p ro m ises, better return to the mainland. Thank you again, very food, better living, better hom es and ev ery much. thing. But now, for more than 17 y ea rs Mao GENERAL YU: Thank you, Doctor. T se-tung has not kept his p ro m ises. The ' DEAN MANION: There my frien d s, you have m a sse s of the people on the China mainland feel two important m essa g es taken d irectly in Free that they have been cheated. They are disap China. When the Chinese Communist apparatus pointed. They realize that Mao T se-tung has on the C hinese mainland is destroyed by the been cheating them . That's the fir st reason. Chinese people in the manner described by Secondly, the people on the China mainland General Yu, the puppet Communist government want our P resident to return because General of North Viet Nam w ill autom atically collap se. issim o Chiang K ai-shek has done three things Our V iet Nam war w ill end at the sam e tim e for the Chinese people which the Chinese people and the V ietnam ese people, North and South, w ill never forget and which world history can w ill be freed from the torturing guerrilla ag never deny. The fir st thing he did was he uni g r essio n that Mao T se-tung and his Number fied China and elii dnated all the war lords in Two man Lin Plao plan to project through the 1926. The second thing he did, he fought for 8 entire free world. y ea rs against Japan and won the war in spite of This fortuitous liberation of the Chinese heavy odds. The third thing he did was that for people can never take place as long as such the fir st lim e in 5 ,0 0 0 y ea rs of Chinese history, people as P resid en t Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, he gives the Chinese people the fir st demo Arthur Goldberg and Robert Kennedy keep talk cratic Government of China. ing about building bridges between the A m eri On the other hand, our G eneralissim o has can people and our deadly enemy the Commu made no p rom ises to the people, but actually he n ist governm ent of China. As soon as President has done a great deal for the people in Taiwan. Johnson publicly exp resses, the ho_pe that the He has made land reform s, Improved th e llv e ll- Chinese people can manage to destroy the d la - A 9 Io 9 SUNDA Y Duncan’s ploys with the bits of Scottish plaid, the Scot names, the Scot bagpipes are really shallow bits of political gimmicky. Anyone who will look at the record can see that he has voted for every item of lavish spending and extrava gant programming the White House has sug gested, yet by ballooning the accident of his ScoP* name he is building an image of a man dedicated ' to watching every taxpayer dollar. Some aré*5 believing. I am not. « '*’• Give Hatfield credit for the courage to in the face of political winds by asking ques tions. It is regrettable that some misinterpret these questions as meaning Hatfield opposes en tirely the Viet Nam program, and it !* tragic that some use Hatfield's courage to associate him with that small unwashed group who lie down in front of troop trains. Send Hatfield to Washington and v * will halve an extremely useful man in hamiutnng out the right and proper American program. Send Duncan to Washington, and we will be sending only a gift-wrapped, pre-stamped, p r> chewed vote for whatever gala spending trick the Administration will propose . . . . regardless of the Scottish accident of his name. —Lake County Examiner AS YOU THINK, YOU TRAVEL As you think, you travel; and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrojv where your thoughts take you. You cannot escape the result of your thoughts, but you can endure and learn, can accept and be glad. You w ill realize the vision (not the ideal wish), of your heart, be it base or be it beautiful, or a mixture of both, for you will always gravitate towards that which you secretly must love. Into your hands will be placed the exact result of your thoughts; you w ill receive that which you earn; no more, no less. Whatever your present environment may be, you w ill fall, remain, or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You w ill become as small as your con trolling desire; as great as your dominant aspira tion. — bomkau H \ ■■.»« ■■g'gBg e iBJLJ!_____ .a* van voobhims II II • bollcal regim e that is now destroying them — the forces of F ree China will im m ediately suit the action to the word. Why dbesn't President Johnson exp ress that hope for the liberation of the Chinese? Does the President of the United States, for and In the name of the American people, have the moral right to keep 600 m illion Impoverished Chinese people in Communist bondage? On the con - trary, do we not have a moral obligation to say the word that w ill bring peace and freedom to China and Viet Nam? These questions would seem to anawar them selves. Why not ask President Johnson for his answ ers ? Copyright Manion Forum 1966. Quotations lor howspapor Covorait Authorite. t • • ’ ‘ ; ,« ;.
