MAO NO TITO; U. S. MUST ACT-DALLIN
DALLIN, DAVID J.
Mao No Tito; U.S. Must Act-Dallin By David J. Dallin SUPPORTED BY A WHOLE SET OF FELLOW-TRAVELERS, the State Department, imagining that a rift between Russian and Chinese Communism is...
...Its main railways are already under Russian control...
...The eight "peace conditions" Mao presented to Nanking received very favorable Soviet newspaper comment...
...to-Conununi less...
...He's back, and be bears neither bruises nor ¦cars...
...An intriguing question is where the contestants will come from...
...THE LABOR BOARD'S anti-laboc General Counsel, Robert N. Denham, received a haymaker from a Labor Board trial examiner, A. Bruce Hunt, last week, when the latter ruled in effect that Denham was out-of-bounds in obtaining a Federal injunction under the Taft-Hartley Act against the AFL National Farm Labor Union in connection with the 19-month old strike at the Di Giorgia Fruit Corporation farm at Bakeisfield, California...
...The same conclusion flows from an article in the Saturday Evening Post by Edgar Snow, Mao Tse-tung's unofficial ambassador in America...
...He has executed Russian purges within his own party, approved Stalin's pact with Hitler, and never questioned Soviet postwar policies in China, however predatory...
...The false picture painted by Snow tends to support Moscow's main line: "Let the Communists take over...
...Not "Hamlet," but "Henry," a small Grade B. RICHARD ARMOUR AN EDITORIAL— The Forgotten Veteran WHILE OUR VETERANS WERE POURING in on us from the fronts, their lack of housing touched our hearts...
...it will have diplomatic representation in the world's capitals...
...After their victory the Chinese Communists will undoubtedly establish a ceatralized army...
...If Russia and its Manchurian satellite stay aloof, the conflict will be short-lived...
...and the United States, which— despite the maneuverings of the State Department—will never reconcile itself to the new huge power combination extending from Berlin to Nanking...
...WHO ORIGINALLY PLANTED the idea that Mao Tse-tung may become a Chinese Tito...
...Faced with a Communist continental coalition from the Aleutians to Shanghai, Japan has no future...
...The solidity of the Republican-Dixiecrat coalition to dale has proved the Lucas-Rayburn strategy to be wrong...
...THE CIO SHIPBUILDING Workers Union has decided on a four-point wage policy for 1949 contracts affecting 28 shipyards in Maine, New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland...
...He was only away, he insists, pro tarn...
...He said that was what he was doing...
...WITH THE 1850 ELECTION in view, it becomes good strategy to force Congressmen to stand up and be counted...
...Three national forces can become the fulcrum for a new international policy in the Far East...
...Like a player loaned out by MGM...
...A number of his officers have gone through Soviet military academies...
...No one appreciates these simple truths better than the leaders of the Chinese Communists...
...Last year, AVC conducted an effective week-end housing lobby in Washington, together with representatives from the more conservative American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars...
...Trial Examiner Hunt ruled the Government cannot prosecute workers under the punitive provisions of the Taft-Hartley Law if the law refuses to recognize* them under the provisions of the act...
...Some...
...Moreover, onlyAmerican activity can accelerate and bring about such a revolutionary change in Chinese Communist tactics...
...But all have ended in complete victory for Stalin's Politburo...
...I was just like a player that MGM loaned out to another company," —News Hem...
...TV i . ...ij, iu ueaie a Russian sphere extending not only to Manchuria, but beyond the Chinese Wall as far as Tsientsin and Peiping...
...What a shame...
...if they intervene, it can become prolonged and complicated, but perhaps more significant is its outcome...
...Senate Majority Leader Lucas and House Speaker Rayburn urged a policy of wooing back into the Democratic fold those Dixiecrats who opposed Truman in November...
...Once the U. S. decides to pursue an active •policy, it will have to build on the support of peoples who are interested in resisting Communist expansion...
...and that the Repub%an-Dixiecratcoalition is fighting against the mandate of the people...
...Russian troops are stationed in two southern Manchurian ports...
...Meanwhile, a revolution in top-level thinking must first take place—a strong will to act in this critical situation must be created...
...Though unlikely today, it may happen in the future...
...They should support it, he said, after the election as well as before it and keep campaign promises...
...and the unexpected presentation of new, totally unacceptable conditions coinciding with the climactic advance of Communist soldiers across the Yangtse— bears the unmistakable Imprint of Moscow...
...It is clear, therefore, that Democratic Congressmen who opposed the party platform on the Hill will face contests in the party primaries next year...
...Since then, every little fellowtraveler has been displaying "evidence" that Chinese Communism is "independent" of Moscow...
...Not least, Russia will be free to deliver the latest weapons to the new Chinese regime: •£*»*V<r a* an efflcttnt raiMeat^'power —MoscoW'iTprihjaJy'l'ar Eastern abjective—will be a novel phenomenon in world affairs...
...The Soviet government lias dug up similar Czurist plans concerning Europe and has been executing them with servile lack of origmlity...
...Correction In our April 2» lnu«, we listed Abraham H, Weinberg as an Olllclal of the Pulp, Sulpllltu and Paper Mill Worker!, CIO...
...This column anticipated the new policy when it reported, on April 16...
...Simultaneously, however, he negotiated with them, and from behind the scenes issued instructions to them...
...The new agreements will have to be concluded by July 23 to keep the no-strike clause valid...
...NO OSCAR...
...The PSPMW ia an AFL affiliate, and Mr...
...Militarism in China will make inevitable the re-arming of Japan and the accelerated arming of India, naturally with American and British support...
...Such a caucus, if called, would be directed toward the 1950 primaries and elections...
...This phrase, being echoed by the entire world Communist press, is more than a phrase, it is a program...
...supreme leader of Chinese Communism, was appointed to his post eighteen years ago by Stalin...
...Mostly they will have to come from within Democratic ranks if they are to run in the Democratic primaries, although there may be some exceptions to this general political rule...
...KNOWING IN JANUARY what the rest of the nation did not realize till March—that is, the real weakness of Administration forces in Congress — Lucas and Rayburn counseled a pacific attitude towards the Dixiecrats and a go-slow policy on legislation...
...The housing plight of veterans today remains substantially as serious as it was three or four years ago...
...All of this is not going quite as far as calling a party caucus...
...Ia back from having ben out on loan...
...There is here a meeting of minds between the President and the leaders of the labor movement...
...I never felt that 1 left the Democratic Party," Senator Glen Taylor told a reporter...
...Each has its merits and difficulties...
...Contrary to the stories spread by Stalin's and Mao's mouthpieces, in the last few months relations between Russian and Chinese Com* munism have grown closer, as the Soviet press illustrates...
...Senator Taylor, bless his heart, Ia linlshed with playing his featured part...
...Most veterans have grown tired of clamoring for legislative action...
...Was it, perchance, Moscow itself...
...At the first sign of Chinese Titoism, the age-old dream of annexing Manchuria to the Russian Empire would become a temptation hard for Stalin to resist...
...FIRST BENEFICIARY of the President's hardening attitude towards the Dixiecrats, as it happens, is the effort to repeal Taft-Hartley...
...MAO NEEDS THE KREMLIN as a diplomatic sponsor...
...2. Around Canton, in southern China, historical grounds exist for a dissident movement...
...n',\t learn that exactly fift> ; is elaborated in St...
...But scarcely a new wall was built, either by public or private construction agencies...
...Why not take over the great country m he Yellow Sea and intone the Soviet anthem in Peiping...
...He has maintained it since only by remaining in Stalin's favor...
...Cantoh was Sun Yat-sen's chief base of operations against the warlords nearly three decades ago...
...But the myth of a Chinese Tito serves only to camouflage close collaboration between Chinese and Russian Communism...
...Tf the State department': b'ighl y. -mg men were to study historv in- ¦ Km- writings of rry...
...It cannot live economically divorced from the continent...
...And that is what happened last week —a change of Administration strategy and policy...
...Liberals who hope to displace reactionary Democrats in various Congressional districts will have to take this political reality into account, Even labor's political arm accepted this condition last November, placing its support in the main behind the most acceptable candidates rather than behind the ideal candidate...
...They are somewhat disillusioned in our much-vaunted democratic processes...
...But fortunately, one group is still articulate enough to speak in no uncertain terms for housing—the American Veterans Committee...
...then Denham asked for a Ij^Ieral injunction charging that tfie union violated the law...
...When Henry Wallace returned from China with a pro-Communist report, President Roosevelt subscribed to it out of deference to Russia...
...So last week the President shelved that policy and initiated the new one...
...It was reported here that Congressman Cavalcante had 63 signatures on a petition urging such a caucus...
...Tony Cavalcante of Uniontown, Pa., a former labor lawyer, for a party caucus on TaftHartley as a step toward forcing the Dixiecrats into line with the weapons of Federal patronage and allocation of positions oh Congressional committees...
...In fact, the President was asked whether he would consider votes on repeal of Taft-Hartley as one of the tests of party loyalty...
...Chu-Teh, supreme commander of the Communist armies, studied military science in Germany...
...The war plants of Czechoslovakia and of Eastern Germany will be able to supply the future Chinese Communist government with more than the sporadic aid America gave to Chiang Kai-shek...
...Manchuria fell to the Chinese Communists in 1946 as a result of Russian intervention...
...During the first four months of the Hew Administration, President Truman listened attentively to the advice of his lieutenants os Capitol Hill...
...Well do we recall how Stalin—during the last war—alluded to his Chinese comrades as despicable "agrarian Comunists...
...President Truman's theory is that the issues of last November were crystal dear...
...The union will demand (1) a 35-hour week with no pay loss, (2) a substantial wage increase after the 35-hour week is in effect, (3) a health and welfare insurance program providing life insurance policies and hospital, accident and surgery benefits, and (4) a compulsory pension plan of a minimum of $100 a month when an employe reaches the age of 00 or after 25 years' service...
...that the people knew what they wanted and what they were voting for...
...Canton was the headquarters from which Chiang Kai-Shek, in the 1920's, launched his Northern Expedition to unite the nation...
...We wish the American Veterans Committee godspeed and good hunting...
...3. If other efforts fail, there remain Japanese resources and manpower...
...Moscow wants the reorganization of the Chinese government to be a "legal" operation, with the Communists appearing as Chiang's successors...
...Who knows whether the cold war in Asia will be shorter than that in Europe...
...Hence Chinese Communism has been victorious because it is backed to the hilt by Stalin...
...But their implications will have to be thoroughly studied before decisions are made...
...So we raised a hue and a cry, and we urged legislators to frame housing legislation which first became known as the Wagner-Ellender-Taft bill, then—with the change in control of Congress—as the Taft-EUenderWagner bill...
...north Korea is a Soviet satellite...
...Truman thinks, too...
...a rehabilitated Japan...
...It is still possible that Canton, and perhaps also Kwantung province, may be salvaged from the Nationalist wreckage, and new forces created and trained there...
...S ENATOR TAYLOR, he'd like It known...
...President Truman gave Jhetq ^,'thejr chance, t» demonstrate the correctness of their*' strategy, until last week...
...Must Act-Dallin By David J. Dallin SUPPORTED BY A WHOLE SET OF FELLOW-TRAVELERS, the State Department, imagining that a rift between Russian and Chinese Communism is imminent, has assumed an attitude of non-resistance toward the current situation in China...
...A White House conference between the President and hi* Administration leaders on Capitol Hill resulted in a statement by Democratic National Chairman J. Howard McGrath that a new decision on Federal patronage was to be based, not on how Senators and Representatives voted on legislation, but on whether they supported or opposed the national ticket last November...
...But the cleavage between the President's thinking and that of his legislative leaders was demonstrated the following day, at a White House press conference, when the President defined Democrats as those people who support the Democratic platform—which he regards as the law of the Democratic Party...
...What we do know, after four fateful years, is that the Yalta decisions were a disastrous blunder for Asia, and that Potsdam has led Europe into an impasse...
...AVC, on the other hand, will once more turn out in force—this week-end is the date—to insist that our legislators act at once to provide homes for millions of needy veterans as well as citizens in general...
...The new regime will inherit China's seat in the UN and on the Allied Council in Japan...
...Most labor leaders now take the view that last November's election was only the beginning of the job, and that it will take another election to effect a real change in Congress...
...but it is obviously a preliminary step in that direction...
...It is likely, then, that Mao and Chu Teh will someday turn against Moscow...
...If Mao were to proclaim his independence from Moscow, Manchuria would be detached from China instantly...
...Truman replied that.he certainly would...
...the demand of Rep...
...Denham denied the striking union the right to file unfair labor charges against Di Giorgia 6n the ground that its members have no rights under the law...
...and it will claim China's gold and other tangible foreign assets...
...The enemy, in this case, being the anti-Communist remnants, which cannot be suppressed...
...Have there been differences of opinion between Chinese and Russian Communism...
...This book is filled with misleading statements and outright distortions...
...From this was deduced the fact that, while others might not base party regularity on how Democrats voted on legislation, the President himself very clearly was defining party regularity in terms of votes on legislation designod to carry out the Democratic platform...
...So far there is not the slightest evidence of any Sino-Russian conflict The victory of Chinese Communism, says Pravda...
...It would therefore be a mistake of the first magnitude to withdraw U. S. troops from Korea now, as the State Department intends to do...
...we exclaimed, that these war heroes must return to the very quonset huts they had just vacated, or at best to a corner of mother's living room...
...Senator Taylor, guitar and all* Is home fro mike loan he was on laei IalL The picture he made is completed, you see...
...That being the rifcse^the President feels, there is only one line of action that makes sense, and that is to proceed aggressively to carry out the mandate of the people and leave it to the voters to decide in 1950—only a year and a half off now— between the Administration and the Republican Dixiecrat coalition...
...Not once has he criticized Russia's domestic or foreign policies...
...And that's What Mr...
...For they soot the picture and not the stare...
...The compliment thus paid Mao leaves no doubt that Stalin's approval and advice were given before Mao consented to the "peace" negotiations...
...D. C. IT MAY BE RELIABLY REPORTED that President Truman—after observing from the sidelines for almost four months—has moved in on his Administration leaders on Capitol Hill and is resolved to take the offensive on his domestic program with the 1990 political campaign in focus...
...Moreover, the nature of these negotiations—the ^ shrewd delaying tactics as Communist troops approached the Yangtse...
...Reams of testimony were taken by Congressional committees—af if anyone needed more than the evidence that met the eve...
...It will fall prey to Russian and Chinese forces the moment America withdraws...
...Japan will then have to fight, unless the outlook in Asia changes before long...
...e • • THE OUTLINES OF SUCH A POLICY are clear: 1. South Korea should be united with northern Korea...
...It is false, however, to build the policy of a great power on nebulous expectation and hypothesis...
...If labor must, it can survive the TaftHartley law for another year and a half—especially if it provides the spur needed to enable labor to finish its job of political organization...
...The impact of this victory—what with the Korean army on the Manchurian frontier—can bring serious changes to China...
...Other political roads can lead to a reasonable balance of power in Asia...
...Owen Lattimore, a pro-Communist writer on Asiatic affairs, has recently published a book entitled The Situation in Asia...
...One of Communism's firmest principles is "not to disarm in the face of the enemy...
...THE FACT IS THAT MAO...
...Today, American passivity in China is due primarily to fear of trouble with the Soviet Union...
...After all, no one would deny the possibility of a Communist rebellion in China against the dictates of Moscow...
...In either case, south Korea—with 20 million people as against the north's 9 million—will be victorious in the end...
...Truman on Warpath After Dems Split on T-H By Jonathan Stout WASHINGTON...
...Weinberg Ja an officer In Ita Local 2«9, the Paper box Maker* Union, WHAT...
...will tip the scale" in favor of world Communism...
...Its main thesis is that we must leave the Chinese Communists alone, in the hope that they will develop an anti-Russian orientation...
...SECONDLY...
...unification can be achieved, however, only by military means...
...Labor Notes CIO PRESIDENT PHILIP MURRAY conferred last week with Triton Qomc/., exiled Spanish labor leader, and told the latter the CIO is still opposed to American recognition of the Franco government...
...This year, the Legion and VFW, preferring a soak-the-country policy of demanding a veterans' bonus, have ignored the fact that a bonus—or a bone—will not build the door the wolf must be kept from...
Vol. 32 • May 1949 • No. 19
