Thousands of Anti-Red Chinese Shun Formosa-and the Feeling Is Mutual
Manila -fl!PII- Tens nf thou.
sands of Chinese are opposed
to communism, but are un
willing to live with the Chi
nese Nationalists on Formosa.
In turn, Formosa is not
eager to welcome them.
These Chinese without
country could find their tra
ditional ways of life practiced
daily in Formosa. But few of
them want to move, and even
fewer could expect to be ad
mitted to Nationalist China,
one of the- great paradoxes of
the Cold War struggle in Asia.
Many Chinese living in the
Philippines, Indonesia and
across the Indochina Peninsu
la to Malaya and Burma do
not want to live under Presi
dent Chiang Kai-shek's admin
instration in Formosa for
many reasons.
It is far easier for an Amer
ican to enter the Nationalist
Chinese island than it is for a
Chinese.
They have good businesses
and see little opoprtunity for j
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prosperity on Formosa with j
rigid and austere economic j
conditions. j
Some Chinese stl!! view the
Kuomintang administra t i o n
as a corrupt and dying clique
little better than Mao Tse
tung's Communists.
Some have lived outside i
China for generations and,
despite local cultural differ-j
ences, feel more attached to i
their land of adoption than to
China.
iscourago Refugees
The Nationalists, although
they call Formosa the island
of Chinese freedom, discour-f
age Chinese refugees from ,
seeking haven there.
! Late last year, s ever a !
thousand Chinese were de-;
ported from Indonesia to For
mosa - the largest single !
group of Chinese to settle in
Formosa since the 1949 cvacii-!
ation of the Kuomintang
forces from the China main
land.
Formosa accepted the Chi
nese from Indonesia reluctant- i
ly and only because their onlv
other destination would have
been Communist China.
The Nationalist government j
contends that Formosa is' too I
small and too crowded to ac
cept any more large groups of I
refugees from Communist
China.
The argument lias some
merit. American and Chinese I
economic officials agree that
Formosa at its present rale of
population growth will be
forced to stop exporting food
within a few years in order to
feed itself.
But a bigger block against I
Chinese entry into Formosa is
the strict anti - Communist
security system.
The Nationalists arc highly
tuned to the possibility of
Communist infiltration and
espionage against their big
military forces.
' The few Chinese allowed to
settle in Formosa arc screened
for their past political activi
ties. In most cases, they must
produce personal guarantors
from the upper ranks of the
Nationalist government or the
military forces.
The 10-year-old dispute be
tween the Philippines and the
Nationalist government dra
matizes tlie Chinese problem.
Expired Papers
The Manila government
contends that some 2,700 Chi
nese are living in the Philip
pines illegally with expired
papers.
The Philippines wants to
deport them to Formosa, but
the Nationalists want them to
remain where they are.
Most of the Chinese at issue
came to the Philippines at the
nine of the 194!) Communist i
victory on the China Main-!
land.
In most cases, they selected J
the Philippines rather than!
Formosa because they had
TWIN CONFUSION - Kathleen Showalter,
kindergarten teacher ai a Grand Rapids,
Mich., school, sees double nearly every
where she looks. She has three sets of iden
tical twins in her class. She puts tags on
them to tell who's who. This situation is
familiar to her as she has an identical twin
sister. The boys are, from left, Philip and
Alan Kaufman. Larry and Gary Ritzke,
and Irving and Mark Rotenberg.
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French Clerk Awarded U.S.
Distinguished Service Award
Paris (UPn - At U.S. consu
lates in France they still
speak of the "quiet non
American" who shortened his
life to defend the nationals
and interests of a country not
his own.
What they say fills out the
scanty information released
by the State Department in
Washington early in Decem
ber when it gave its highest
award - posthumously - to
Frenchman Henry Crooks.
Crooks was a clerk. He
spent 32 years amid the filing
cabinets of American consu
lates in Amsterdam, Brussels
and Lyons as one of Uncle
Sam's unsung "local help"
abroad.
But to the Americans who
worked with him in Lyons
during and after World War
II he was a man to remem
ber. "The quiet and undramatic
way in which he went on do
ing his duly, as he conceived
it, to a country he never saw,
no matter how hard the going
got, made him one of the most
extraordinary men I've ever,
known."
The tribute came from Con
stance Harvey, a Foreign
Service career official of 30
years experience, who is pres
ently U.S. consul at Stras
bourg, France.
Valuable Information
During 1941 and 1942, ac
cording to the records given
out in Washington. Crooks
"performed a number of
highly confidential tasks help
ing to obtain valuable mili
tary information for the
United States government."
Visiting Paris on govern
ment business recently, the
U. S. consul at Lyons, Walter
Gates, was asked about those
tasks by United Press Interna
tional. "They were delicate and
they were risky," said Gates,
a Foreign Service veteran
from El Paso, Tex. "And the
really unusual tiling about
them was that Crooks did not
act on orders from American
superiors.
"He acted on his own initia
tive, because he felt it to be
his duty to the United States."
Born in France of a French
mother and British father (he
later chose French national
Ity), Henry Herbert Crooks
was equally at home in
French, English, German and
Flemish. That, and being an
unobtrusive French resident
of Lyons outside of office
hours, helped him in his self
appointed task.
"He was instrumental in
passing on to the Allied com
mands, including the Ameri
can, useful information about
the Germans," Gates said.
"He also helped numerous
people who hid out from the
Nazis-resistance fighters, Al
lied pilots who were downed
over France, and just people
in trouble."
Those in trouble included
manv Americans - refugees
who'had fled into unoccupied
France from many parts of
Europe before the Germans
stepped in, many of them
without money or papers In
proper order, or even proof
of U. S. citizenship.
"Crooks used his amazing
knowledge of our consular
regulations to help them,"
Gates said. "Just as before
the war he helped Americans
in Europe through the red
tape of military pensions, so
cial security and so on.
"Henry just liked to help
people."
Eight months after the Ger
mans took over Lyons, Crooks
was arrested by the Gestapo
and shipped to the Buehcn
wald concentration camp.
Shortens Life
There, to quote the State
Department, the Nazis "tried
in vain to make mm reveal
information which he had by
reason of his service for the
Uni,ted States government . . .
it may be said that Mr.
Crooks shortened his life
through his loyally to the
United States."
"I would certainly say it,"
exclaimed Miss Harvey at
Strasbourg. ,
"We Americans at the con
sulate in Lyons were interned
and repatriated when the
Germans marched in," she
said. "The Swiss took over
representation of American
interests. Henry stayed at his
desk.
"He just went on doing
what he had been doing, help
ing American pilots and so
forth. Yet he wasn't an adven
turous looking man at all. He
was very gentle and utterly
devoted to his wife and two
children."
His wife, a Belgian girl he
married when he was 19, later
said he never told her his job
LEGAL DELAYS
Philadelphia-Average lime
for a court case (no jury) to
get actual court action is now
about 4.6 months, according to
a survey conducted by the
courts and state bar associations.
TICKET PUNCHES
Chicago - No two railway
conductor s punches are exact
ly alike in the desitrn of the
perforation and each punch is
registered in the name of the
conductor who is currently
using it.
was anything more than of
fice routine.
Liberated by American
troops, Crooks went back to
the consulate as chief clerk.
"He was a healthy chap be
fore," said Gates, "but Buch
enwald had done him in."
Suffering from heart and
lung ailments, Crooks would
not avail himself of free mod-,
ical treatment at U. S. gov
ernment expense.
"He'd say, 'Oh, it's noth
ing.' He wouldn't take time
off," Gales recalled.
In September, 1959, Crooks
died at the age of 56. Gates
sent the "unheroic story of a
heroic man" to Washington to
gether with a recommenda
tion for a Distinguished Serv
ice Award.
"It's the State Depart
ment's highest honor," Gates
said. "I haven't heard of any
other of our foreign employees
getting it."
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relatives in the Philippines.
They entered with tempor
ary visitors' visas which have
expired and which Manila has
refused to renew.
In most of Southeast Asia,
the Chinese residents are pros
perous and control a great
deal of commerce.
Some of Asia's newly inde
pendent nations, jealous of
their own native rights, have
adopted restrictive measures
against Chinese, many of
whom enjoyed special privi
leges when their areas were
under European colonial rule.
In some cases, anti-Chinese
measures and utterances are
little more than political axes
swung by local politicians to
win votes and prestige among
their own countrymen.
Chances seem good this
year for more Philippine po
litical cries against Chinese
residents. This is a presiden
tial election year in the Phil
ippines, and the Chinese ques
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