A CHINESE TITO?
DALLIN, DAVID J.
East and West A Chinaese Tito? Bp David J. Dallin SmK^'iriajmmomjm the other day demanded a joint Congressional investigation of United States policy on China. He is supported by Senators...
...If these supporters of the Soviet are victimized-, he went on, his opposition to them will immediately become suspect...
...Nothing detracts more from that ability than a completely free discussion of the issues which' lie between the Communists ana ourselves...
...The New Times, actually the mouthpiece of the Foreign Pommissariat, likewise eulogized Chinese Communism and its leaders...
...Not long ago Mao proposed to create a Cominform for the Far East under Soviet leadership, i .Soviet leaders and the...
...In plain language it means consistent passivity...
...For example, three young men served in the history department of one of them...
...Any suggestion thwthey sheulrf be excluded from faculties wOttWr strike me as absurd...
...s . < a a • NOW THE DEVOTED PROTECTORS of Chinese Communism have found a new sfogan —it makes the rounds in Washington, in the press, and in public speeches...
...Of course, that thing could happen only because of inexcusable negligence on the part df...
...But if the Holy See were again to inaugurate a" drive against "Modernists" as Pius X around 1910, our Catholic colleagues would be under even greater pressure than the Communists ore to. day, for clearly it is easier for a Communist to leave his party than for a Catholic to leave his church...
...It is a tiny idea, equally as profound as the One concerning "agrarian reformers...
...Do they* not all have a share in the responsibility for the great crimes...
...A Communist professor must expect to.be called upon by his party, in the name of loyalty to the cause, to engage in practices that are...
...They try to give harmless interpretations to the instructions from their party until they themselves receive an unmistakable order to do something which violates their conscience...
...What appears strange, however, is that in a. country which spends millions of dollars to obtain correct and objective information, political leaders and newspapers can be so thoroughly deceived...
...The same statement was made four months before by GeorgiDimitrov, leader of Cbthmuntst Bulgaria...
...that its leader Mao Tse-tung is or will become the...
...We can pray," a leading American newspaper says in its editorial on China, "that China will not be entirely inundated by the red flood...
...Soviet press have reciprocated...
...THE SLIGHTEST INDICATION exists that any serious rift has developed* between Russian and <!Hii'nese Communism...
...Like yotr, t have known many catholics as excellent friends and colleagues...
...The Professor also said: If we throw Communists out of our faculties we must, if we are to be logical, throw out Catholics...
...A ridiculous and childish notion prevalent during the war was that the Chinese Communists were just "agrarian reformers," that they were "no Communists at all...
...Mr...
...At the Congress of the Bulgarian Communist Party both Stalin and Mao- Tse-tung were elected "honary members Of tjje Presidium...
...They met in the headquarters of the Communist Party and there, With party advisers near Or actually irt consultation with them, worked out list of topics to be studied by the students...
...The widespread belief in America that our foreign policy is no longer to appease Moscow, and that Secretary of State Acheson is a consistent fighter against Communist expansion, is half illusion...
...Having committed a number of fateful' blunders in its Chinese policy, the State Department is about to make a few new ones...
...munists.-and destroying Communism...
...Probably the Par Eastern Sitlj^tion will soon be discussed in detail...
...Now it seems that the ominous passivity finds support in the Secretary of State and in the President himself...
...Prayer means faith and hope, not action...
...Other faculty members...
...Whatever the case'in Europe, in the Far East our policy has been, and is, one of experiments in appeasement, of pro-Soviet zigzags, of passive aid to Communists'— and of inevitable frustration...
...He said that in his classes he had steadily opposed Communist influence and doctrines...
...Moreover, basic arguments are greatly reinforced by considerations of expediency, and we have to make a choice between making life hard—perhaps deservedly hard—for individual Com...
...But _the Communists' are quite different...
...Some of them I knew well...
...And, then, where shall we stop...
...Withdraw American troops from Korea — they endanger the North Korean Communist State...
...The authoritative Bolshevik, Russia's most important publication, recently praised the Chinese Communist Party, its leaders, and the course of its policy...
...If such men are on a faculty, they must be expected to act in this way.*'' •' • • • . . TO THIS PHOT...
...You may say: Why take any risk...
...Certainly, the rfc pendenee of Catholics on outside authority does not at the present time influence their teaching as much as the dependence on Moscow may influence' the teaching of Communists...
...Churches are built for - prayers...
...Persons come and go...
...Contrary fe predictions, Mao' Tse-tung has approved every step of Moscow's course in world affairs, has never protested against any anti-Chinese action (sueh as fl»e lectin* of Manchurian" industry)?, and* Has extolled Joseph Stalin on every pos...
...This fact is obvious to you and to me, but I am quite sure that a number of Communist cardholders in the academic profession refuse to believe it...
...after all, that is their job...
...Its great-': est source of strength lies in its ability to convert genuine liberals into fellow-travelers...
...LANDAUER REPLIED...
...Consequently we cannot, in my opinion, exclude Communists because of their lack of inner freedom...
...It is true that if you would go deep down into the mind of any of them you would find there a core of unreasoned faith...
...For years the leading personnel of the Far Eastern Division of the State Department have been responsible for fateful errors...
...But this central core of faith had so little apparent bearing on life or teaching that these men were hardly distinguishable from their Protestant colleagues...
...Students will naturally discount words...
...Even in the" event* Of such a development, however, we would not wish to expel from our faculties' Catholics who stay in their church...
...that are qtfrently committed in Europe and Asia...
...Since when does the new luxurious building on K Street serve for praying...
...of Communist expansion...
...They will think that he is merely following a line laid down by superiors...
...Chinese Communists are likely to collaborate with the United States rather than with the Soviet Union," these writers asserted...
...These mert, as party members, were pledged to live their lives according to party dictates...
...The professor made one point in favor of leaving' the Stalinists in their places which seemed to me impressive...
...Why show tender regard for wishful thinkers...
...and the present situation in China is the pay-off...
...And it will be high time...
...A stronger case can be made, in my opinion, for excluding Communists because of the viciousness of their party tactics...
...Tito of China...
...Perhaps you will object: How shall we know what decision he has made...
...These yoUrtg fellows managed to get themselves chosen as members of a coirtmittee to outline the program of their department...
...We expect fellow-travellers to invent such theories...
...To this I answered in a personal letter: "At the University of Michigan in my day we had a good many Catholics on the faculty...
...WATCHFUL WAITING" is the official slogan...
...This house of cards soon collapsed...
...Can we punish a man for such wishful thinking...
...We are toM by the "experts" that ja profound divergenceeven conflict—has developed between Russia and Chinese Communism...
...it is destined to prolong, and' strengthen our splendid passivity in the face...
...But we owe it to ourselves to treat them according to our principles, not theirs...
...They are a potential menace to the Chinese Commdnists in Manchuria...
...sible occasion...
...The new idea is that Chinese Communism is a nationalist movement...
...Is it not a shame that the strongest power in the world sits aside and observes with nonchalance how its sworn enemies take over control of 4he greatest continent...
...Nothing adds4 more to this ability than exclusion of Communists from the rights and privileges Of democracy...
...Aloofness is precisely what Moscow and all its puppets have been demanding of the United States...
...NOT...
...Yes, they cannot be exonerated...
...X..J < & few weeks age the Communist Party of China announced that it will fight on the Sovfet side in ease of a world war...
...Let the Communists take over China...
...He is supported by Senators Styles Bridges, Wayne Morse, and, of course, McCarran of Nevada, whose proposal to spend a billion dollars in' aid to the Chinese government was turned down bv Dean Acheson...
...and that Moscow will riot be able to control-Chinese affairs, even ^Chinese Communism does take over...
...Your example of the Communist faculty members in one of your New York municipal colleges seems tome to provide the answer...
...Some years ago when we had a legislative investigation of the New York Schools surprising things were uncovered in colleges of the City of New York...
...The proper procedure, it seems to me, is to wait until he faces the dilemma and to deal with him individually according to the choice which he makes...
...On April 18, Pravda said that Comunist victory in China may turn the balance of power in the world in favor of Communism...
...grossly unethical from the academic point of view—and from the human point of view...
...The Home Front Of Catholics and Communists -By William E. Bohn ON APRIL 2 we published'a letter from our good friend Professor Carl Latfdauef, of the University of California, about the Communists' right to teach...
...So-called experts on Asia and China worked hard to demonstrate that no links connected Communist Yenan with Moscow...
...Dallln's column next week will be de« voted to a further discussion of the issues raised above...
...the spirit, however, has remained...
...Pravda has hailed the policy of the Chinese Communists in unequivocal terms and without reservations...
Vol. 32 • April 1949 • No. 18
