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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
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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
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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 -
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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.
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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.
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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 ?
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