Where the News Ends
CHAMBERLIN, WILLIAM HENRY
WHERE the NEWS ENDS By William Henry Chamberlin The Geneva Conference Must Not Be a Far Eastern Yalta For good reasons, the forthcoming Geneva Conference has met with a conspicuous lack of...
...Despite propaganda assertions from Moscow, Red China is not being accepted as a member of a new "Big Five...
...The French desire for peace at almost any price in Indo-China has led to the somewhat naive hope in Paris that the United States will underwrite the price of appeasement by recognizing Red China, supporting its admission to the UN and offering substantial trade advantages...
...Another element of disadvantage for the United States at Geneva is the British commitment to diplomatic recognition of Mao Tse-tung's dictatorship--even though the Chinese Reds have let four years pass without condescending to appoint an ambassador to London...
...Red China is a blatant aggressor and is still technically in a state of war with the United Nations...
...WHERE the NEWS ENDS By William Henry Chamberlin The Geneva Conference Must Not Be a Far Eastern Yalta For good reasons, the forthcoming Geneva Conference has met with a conspicuous lack of enthusiasm in the United States...
...It has not even taken the trouble, on the eve of the Geneva Conference, to put on a "peace-loving" mask...
...It is also evident, from reading between the lines of some of Dulles's pronouncements, that there is an alternative to the present unsatisfactory political conduct of the war in Indo-China...
...We should declare, on the eve of the Geneva Conference or when it opens, that we are not prepared to talk with the representatives of Communist China on any subject whatever until every American held in bondage is released...
...This would make Peking and its Moscow patron back down on an issue of prestige or else give up the conference they have been so anxious to hold...
...However, there are ominous signs pointing to the possibility of a Far Eastern Yalta at Geneva...
...This is, if Paris falters or wants to quit, to internationalize the struggle and mobilize more effectively the political and military strength of the anti-Communist Vietnamese...
...The first omens for the Geneva Conference have been distinctly unfavorable...
...At the present time, there are several hundred American war prisoners in Manchuria (it was inexcusable that their release was not insisted on when the armistice was concluded), and at least 32 American citizens are being held in filthy Chinese jails...
...This is to recognize the Federal Republic of Germany as an equal ally and give it the necessary means of self-defense--in agreement with England if possible, unilaterally if necessary...
...Dulles, in his speech at the Overseas Press Club and his testimony before Congress, has gone far to spike the possibility that we might be maneuvered or cajoled into any Far Eastern Yalta...
...To be sure, Secretary of State Dulles has won a few technical victories...
...What good purpose could be achieved by admitting a regime of this type to the United Nations, apparently as a reward for past aggression and an appeasing inducement to refrain from future aggression...
...There is one issue which could and should dramatize America's determination to deal firmly with the Chinese Reds...
...The wavering Paris politicians should be made aware of the fact that there is an alternative to the prolonged French sabotage of EDC, which we shall not hesitate to choose unless EDC or some acceptable substitute is ratified in the very near future...
...It is to be hoped that Dulles meant just what he said when he recently told Congress, referring to the inexcusable delay in giving West Germany political and military equality: "It is obvious that the present status cannot continue much longer...
...Indeed, the Berlin foreign ministers' meeting proved no exception to the unfailing rule that conferences with representatives of Communist governments lead to one of two results: deadlock or surrender...
...This aid takes the form of military guidance and technical aid, artillery, ammunition, anti-aircraft guns and large-scale training of Vietminh troops in China...
...He has clearly defined the reasons which govern our refusal to open diplomatic relations with the Peking dictatorship or to support its admission to the UN...
...In committing himself firmly to a "no recognition" policy (which could only conceivably be reconsidered if Red China reversed her entire course in international politics), Dulles has a sound basis for overwhelming popular support in this country...
...On the contrary, it has, according to Dulles, committed more than forty violations of the Korean armistice and has stepped up its "lend-lease" aid to Ho Chi Minh's Reds in Indo-China...
...Weak-kneed Asian neutrals are barred from the conference, and it has been made clear that Communist China is not being recognized by negotiations at Geneva any more than it was by talks at Panmunjom...
Vol. 37 • April 1954 • No. 16
