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PAGE 8 A HERALD AND NEWS. KLAtfATPT FALLS. fWroCW SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19. 1953 I . f J'. M jf.n ';, r fv r';,J9 Red China Impressions Given By NEA Reporter By JOHN STROIIM NEW YORK (NEA) What of the Red Chinese attitude toward John Strohm, the only American correspondent with both U.S. and Chinese permission to travel in China? Amazement, (irst. For here was the mortal enemy they were rant ing about, calmly taking pictures I around the world." now oocs one evaluate sucn statements as these? 1 only know this for sure: all this war spirit is getting a fantastic surge of pro duction out of the Chinese work ers, known ollicially as "the great leap forward in agriculture and industry." In one rural commune they had set up 5.000 tiny blast furnaces to ot their steel plants, their larms makc pig ironi pronljSC( another and their militia. U.ooo by the end of October as vuiiosiiv u.u. i ds d irnmu- ,heir answer to American "agres ay mat my ego dropped when 1 A ictter hv a worker jn a trutk AMAZEMENT AND CURIOSITY freeze the faces Canton as they watch Strohm the first American pressions on film. f these Red Chinese youngsters in they have ever seen record ex- 'MORE GRAIN to promise of farmers ort the front" is MORE STEEL is promise of these workers supp like this one. at tiny new blast furnace near Tientsin. "READY TO REPEL U.S. MARINES," this is a member of newly-organized militia unit In a commune outside Shang hai. Like others, he believes U.S. is ready to land In Red China. ii 1 i:- '"V. r ; If fcjpir' fll 1111 A.. EM 'MA ;i &3: swBMSyr ANTI-U.S. ANTAGONISM clouds faces of these chemical factory workers outside Nanking as thoy discover the picfur taking foreigner is an American. Poster blasts U.S.A., foo. t RC Council Holds Meef Members of the Southern Oregon Red Cross Hospital Council met Klamath Falls October is to plan service to Camp While Vet erans Domiciliary during the com ing season. Mrs. Richard B. Maxwell, vice chairman of the council, was in charge of the program which in cluded a review of the September la disaslef drill conducted bv Ibe local Red Cross-Civil Defense or gani.Mion and included plans for mutual aid from Jackson Coun ty. Olln L. Smith, local disaster chairman. Mrs. Winslun Purvine, stalf aide chairman, and Mrs. Charles Dakin. who was in charge ine mass leeding program re ported and the group viewed a series of pictures taken during the operation. Mrs. F.dhh Fden. .lack- son County Red Cross disaster vice chairman, reported on plan ning and preparations made in their chapter to cooperate with Klamath County during the disas ter drill. Frank donning, service officer lor Camp W hile, reported on needs loi volunteer supplies lor the domi ciliary. Mrs. II. A. Moore, hospi tal chairman lor the local chap ter requests that any group willing to conlribute laundry bags, af ahans. or table games contact her through the local -chapter ofliee. The K 1 a m a t h ltasin chapter pledged funds to cover cost of relreshments for veterans at two entertainment! planned this year by lied Cross Gray Ladies serv ing the veterans at the domiciliary. The next meeting of the council will be held in .Medford Decem ber 5. Sample Ballots Available Now A suohle slack of sample bal lots, listing candidates and issues as they will appear on official elec tion ballots November 4. rests on a counter in the county clerk's office. Clerk Charley Del.ap again reminded voters that they arc welcome in come in and take samples The ballots represent both in cily and out-ol-city precincts. Meanwhile. IVI.ap said. Ill ab sentee ballots h.ne been is sued thus far for persons who ex pect to be absent or unable to go to polls on election day. found that one group of school chil dren who stood up and clapped their hands when I entered the classroom thought I was a Rus sian! In a few spots the searing blast of hatred continually directed to ward our country licked at me.per sonally. A cartoon of protest was drawn of me and placed in my hired automobile. Once while I was being shown through a farm implement repair shop by the vice-director of one of the new communes, a belliger ent worker pushed toward me and shouted, "Get out! Get out!" On another occasion I was sur rounded and jostled by students who were serving the state by run ning a small blast furnace. Scarcely anyone, once my iden tity as an American was estab lished, missed an opportunity to lecture me severely about Ameri can imperialism and the validity of Red China's aims. An engineer claimed he once had seen U.S. sol diers rape girls in Peiping. In Shanghai, I was conducted through a street memorable as the scene where a drunken GI allegedly killed a pedicab driver. This is not a happy time for you to be here," was Ibe under- ftatemcnt of a factory manager in canning. My interpreter, who had trans lated a hundred lectures to me and must have been as tired as I of the propaganda monotone, consoled me in these words: "You're the only American most of Ihem have ever met. It's their chance to tell you what they ininK. What is it like lo be an Amcri can in a hostile land at a time like the Quemoy crisis? One moves in a constant bath of virulent propa ganda, from the official radio to the irate ladies in the old folks home To those who seem to possess some power to reason, you keep up a sun counter-battery of patient argument, nut when day is over the mind is exhausted and the spir it nags, even though you know one man cannot expect to offset mas sive Communist "re-education" and thought control. The healing balm of honest re sentment is a luxury one can en ioy only to a limited extent. Main ly one feels sorrow for the poor Chines c, whose streets, homes, shops and bodies have been cleaned up miraculously while, at the same lime, their minds have been black ened by hatred and distortion. Is there anywhere a few drops of good will for America? Many Chinese assured me that Ihey were quue iona oi ine American peo ple and wanted to be friends but thai John Foster Dulles was pre venting Americans from getting the truth about China. 1 would be less than truthful if 1 failed to say that the vast major ity of the Chinese I met even against the hateful obblignto of the propaganda were most helplul to me personally. They were cour teous and far less evasive than the Russians on my visits to the USSR. The International Tourist Bureau, a government agency that handles all foreign visitors, made every ar rangement I requested, took me everywhere 1 asked to go. While traveling in the rural areas. I would spot formers working in the tields and (ell the driver. "Stop!" The interpreter and I would have a visit with the farmers then move on. often slopping unannounced at an agricultural college or hospital. Many of the impromptu conver sations which resulted became spir ited give and take. I pulled no punches in refuting charges acainst the U.S. but the achates produced no winners As in my visit to the Soviet Un ion this summer I raised the point "But war is so terrible todav tha there can be no v ielors and so there will be no war." I found Ibat this did not go over as well in Red China a.-, it did in Russia because the Chinese seem to have a fatalistic acceptance that if war results from their elfort to take what they believe rightfully belongs to China, then war it musi be and the U.S. will be at fault. Parly Chairman Mao has said that China is the only nation that can afford a war: "We can lose HI) million Chinese and still have ;Iihi million Iclt." A diplomat has reported a grim conversation with Mao in which be party leader said: "W o r 1 d War I set up socialism in Russia. World War II set up socialism in the peoples' democracies of Fur ope and China. World War 111 might see the death of capitalism and the triumph of socialism production. I For many Chinese are nersuad. .During the past month most fac- ed that the U.S. started the war in tories and communes have organ- Korea, just as they are sure that izcd militia units. 1 saw them drill-the Chinese Volunteers won it. factory said. "We ll crush Ameri can aggressors beneath the wheels of our trucks." Fukien province farmers, close to the guns trained at Quemoy, adopt ed the slogan. "More grain to sup port the tront: heavy blows to beat the U.S. wolves." Another reaction reported in the press: "Five million tons of ma nure were transported in one eve ning's effort." When I visited the big open-cut coal mine in Fushun the secretary told me the workers were so up set they had voted to create "20 sputniks" 20 new types of ma chinery to make for more efficient ing with rifles or wooden sticks. They were, these amateurs assert ed, ready to march out and repel the U.S. Marines who were going to land any day now on the Chi nese mainland "just as they did in Lebanon." "But what makes you think America has any idea of attacking China?" I would ask. And they would come back with Chiang's statements that he would lead his army back to the mainland and quote American admirals as boast ing that the U.S. was backing up the Formosa government with "the greatest striking power in his tory." But sometimes they are disdain ful of American strength. "When America talks so much of its pow er." a Hankow steel official told me gravely, "it is really a sign of American weakness." When I tried to talk back to this sort of thing by saying "America never started a war. Why should it now?" they would come hack with ,i knowing smile: "And what about Korea?" "The American people are afraid that the Communists want to force their form of government on the rest of the world," I argued. Again the smile. 'Ridiculous. Lenin himself said communism cannot be exported." Only rarely did I encounter flashes of the Chinese humor which once was so endearing. 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