PLEASURE AND POTSDAM

...A Cordon Sanitaire in the Orient, and that is the only thing that can prevent otir losing the cold war and thus inviting a hot one...

...Surrender of China to the Bolsheviks, confirmed in the State Department White Paper, is the most frightening and the most exasperating news since the war's end...

...Olive was arrested on some frivolous pretext by the Chinese Communist police and was held for almost three days...

...You said That isolationism's dead...

...i * * * A PARALLEL CASE, more serious inasrrfuch as it involved heavy loss of life, was the unprovoked communist attack on the British warship Amethyst, which was carrying supplies to British residents in Nanking in full accordance with existing agreements...

...An apology, extorted from by these forceful methods, was published in the local communist newspaper...

...How can we expect realistic action in Asia when the new three-man policy-forming board includes two former officials of the ill-starred Institute of Pacific Relations, and the board's chairman (a recent character witness for Alger Hiss) urged stopping atomic bomb production in 1948...

...Following this, an airtight blockade should have been clamped on every Chinese Communist port and there should be vigorous support for the air offensive which the Chinese Nationalists are trying to mount from Formosa...

...Richard Armear...

...There are no islands any more...

...C.) Times-Herald, recently purchased by Col...

...When the Japanese, under somewhat similar circumstances, sank the American gunboat Panay in 1937, the Japanese government offered an apology, paid an indemnity and dismissed the responsible officer...

...Anyone familiar with communist technique can have no doubt that both actions were deliberately carried out with just this objective in mind...

...That the document Will become communism's greatest single pfycAakufirnl iTnrrrn in the Orient was clear a aaytttter it was issued, when a Nationalist general gave up Changsha and went over to the Reds...

...Revise Your thinking—though It hurts, get wis...

...History, we must note, has already rendered a verdict on the White Paper...

...Let's form a strong, militant anti-communist federation of eastern nations in close understanding with Britain, France and the Netherlands...

...Although the betrayal of 400 million people, who held off Japanese militarism for us from 1937 to 1941, should be thoroughly investigated by Congress, the formulation of a New Asian Policy is our prime concern at this moment...

...And there is no place for automobiles in the wide network of trails, for walkers and climbers only, which one finds in Zermatt...

...Robert McCormick...

...A similar policy in Asia—which might involve the implementation of Point Four, a Pacific Pact, the formation of an American-armed and advised Asian Democratic Legion, and the recognition that Asia is in a state **t revolutionary upheaval—might finally bring us peace with honor...

...Months after the attack, It has not even been possible to remove the ship or send supplies to its crew...

...The Amethyst and Olive cases represented an excellent opportunity for such a showdown...

...exasperating because the Stalinist method of genocide by characterassassination, which cost General Mikhailovich his life and sent Stanislaw Mickolajczyk and othersinto exile, has succeeded once more— with Chiang Kai-shek the new whipping-boy...

...We might begin in our own backyard...

...Olive as a result of the barbarous treatment he received...

...But some action stronger than words is necessary if the Chinese are to be encouraged to take the risk of active resistance to a ruthless tyranny...

...It was for common cause we fought...

...But I must confess that I got pretty hot under the collar in this peaceful spot when I read about what happened to the American Vice Consul in Shanghai, Mr...

...W. M. Olive, and about the conspicuous inaction that seems to have followed this brutal insult...

...What are we waiting for...

...They can have little but contempt for a Britain that swallows the Amethyst outrage, for an America that takes no steps to vindicate the rights of its citizens to decent treatment under law...

...We have shown in Europe that we can act forcefully and militantly...

...The time for a showdown with these enemies is due 'and overdue...

...And the news that thousands of communist troops were rushing to quell guerrilla uprisings in North China gives a severe jolt to the State Department contention that everything is, and has been lost, in China for months...

...As the American Consul, John Cabot, said in a press statement: "Any such statement was obtained from Mr...

...HAD THESE ULTIMATUMS BEEN rejected, a series of vigorous measures should have been quickly launched...

...Editorial in Washington (D...

...Only by building a powerful dike between our twin bastions of India and Japan can we hope to check the onrushing tide of communism...

...SwitserlancL THIS IS A PARADISE for the tribe of mountain climbers, to which I do not belong, and also for the mountain walkers, of whose fraternity I am an enthusiastic member...

...The Chinese masses are not overwhelmingly behind the communists, as propaganda and ignorance suggest...

...Must we go through this dreary, stupid, humiliating business in Asia...

...This kind of State Department, it seems, would be incapable of erecting EDITORIAL In ratifying the North Atlantic Treaty, the Senate sewed us for 20 years to a bunch of foteign deadheat and scumblebwn nations...

...They understand and respect force...

...Instead of the feeble action, or rather inaction, which the two governments took in the face of these serious assaults, a crisp ultimatum, with a very short time limit, should have been addressed to Mao Tse-tung and Company, with a demand for reparations, public apology, punishment <ot the guilty and a solemn assurance against any repetition of such outrages...

...There is the marvellous abundance and beauty - of the alpine flora in all shades of the rainbow...

...That is perhaps the only chance of avoiding in Asia a catastrophe comparable with the Soviet absorption of Eastern Europe...

...As long As Bertie sings his hateful song And others listen, you were wrong...

...How can we beat communism in Asia if one of the men blasted by General Hurley as a special pleader for Mao Tse-tung is now assistant chief of the State Department's Chinese Affairs Division...

...The Chinese are a realistic people...

...This requires talent, money, and arms—all of which we have in profusion...

...With vigorous co-ordinated support from American volunteers, Chinese communications in communist territory could be quickly thrown into complete disorder and the chances of resistance movements would be greatly enhanced...

...Anyone who is familiar with Oriental psychology must realize what terrific blows to Western prestige the crippling of a British vessel and the beating up of an American diplomatic representative represent...

...In such a place it is hard to be angry at anybody or about anything...

...There is the mountain panorama of unsurpassed grandeur, with 'the Matterhorn and Monte Rosa as the main features and a doften other snowy peaks only eclipsed by these two giants...

...It is hard to see what we are waiting for, what we expect to gain by pursuing a policy of supine inaction while Stalin's Chinese agents consolidate their grip on that unfortunate country before they turn their full attention to Japan, the Philippines and the countries of southeast Asia...

...Haven't we paid a high enough price for appeasement in Europe, for Teheran and Yalta and Potsdam...

...One wonders how many more beatings, literal and figurative, we shall have to take before it occurs to the thick skulls and faint hearts who seem to be over-represented in the conduct , of our Far Eastern policy that the Chinese-Communists are our deadly enemies and that to act on any other assumption is both fatuous and humiliating...

...There are three things that make Zermatt stand out among the many beautiful high mountains I have visited...

...The British government, in connection with the attack on the Amethyst, has received nothing but communist abuse...

...Frightening because communism can now strike a wedge between India and Japan, imperiling all Asia...

...Millions have been fleeing from the communist areas, just as there has been a vast exodus from the iron curtain countries, and from the Soviet zone in Germany...

...You thought You swore...

...A medical examination after his release showed that he was suffering from twenty bruises, soreness in joints, and muscles and evidence of seme internal injuries...

...All American and British diplomatic personnel should have been recalled from China, and other Americans and Britons should have been warned that they were staying in a hostile country at their own risk and against the advice of their governments...