Where the News Ends:
CHAMBERLIN, WILLIAM HENRY
WHERE the NEWS ENDS By William Henry Chamberlin Let's Not Yield to Red Blackmail: Formosa Is Vital to Asian Defense TOTALITARIAN tyrannies are expert in the art of bluster and blackmail, of...
...Attlee has been doing, is to work for war...
...But some of the Bevanite outbursts are hard to take, notably the reported suggestion of Harold Wilson that Chiang Kai-shek and his government and the American Seventh Fleet should all be banished to Saint Helena...
...By intervening in Korea, they tried to shoot their way into the United Nations...
...Let's hope Mr...
...they only brought it on under less favorable conditions...
...One might have thought that one such lesson would be enough, that the world would have recognized the futility of dealing with totalitarian aggressors without equal or superior force and the willingness to use this force if necessary...
...This was the first step toward creating a Polish puppet regime...
...What is at stake is the possibility of making any stand against a complete Communist sweep in East Asia...
...The Chinese Communists have been apt pupils in this game of terror and blackmail...
...For years before the outbreak of the Second World War, Hitler and Mussolini carried out one land grab after another by exploiting fear of war...
...Does anyone in his right mind suppose that the Communist designs on Formosa would be abandoned if the offshore islands were surrendered, or that Formosa would be anything but a stepping stone to Japan, the Philippines, Southeast Asia...
...Dulles seemed to see this clearly when he said recently: "It should not be carelessly assumed that peace and security will be promoted merely by the non-Communist nations indefinitely granting one-sided concessions to the Communist nations...
...After winning a still more decisive victory in Indo-China, they decided that, if they couldn't shoot their way in, perhaps they could kidnap their way in...
...As these fliers were fighting a war under the authorization of the United Nations, the challenge to that organization was clear...
...A great danger in Asia is the fear of many non-Communist peoples that the United States has no real intention of standing firmly behind them...
...What is at stake in Formosa is something more important than an island of strategic value which is also the last outpost of Chinese freedom...
...One striking example of this technique was the Soviet reaction to the discovery, in the Katyn forest, of the bodies of some 15,000 Polish officer POWs...
...These are brave and sensible words...
...WHERE the NEWS ENDS By William Henry Chamberlin Let's Not Yield to Red Blackmail: Formosa Is Vital to Asian Defense TOTALITARIAN tyrannies are expert in the art of bluster and blackmail, of making crime pay...
...The UN took it lying down...
...Where would Mr...
...Wilson expect help to come from when the Chinese Communists fall on Hong Kong and Malaya, as they certainly will if they succeed in driving the United States from the Orient...
...Unfortunately, this has not been the case...
...But retreats and surrenders did not avert war...
...As an antidote to Mr...
...Now the squeeze has started on Formosa, as Peking emits bellicose threats almost daily with responsive echoes from Moscow—the old familiar Hitler-Mussolini smash-and-grab technique...
...Dulles stands firmly behind these words...
...Wilson, the clear-headed, sensible viewpoint of the Economist is worth quoting: "Those, like Mr...
...It seems both surprising and unfortunate that public opinion in Great Britain seems to be softened up for new experiments in appeasement and retreat...
...The Soviet Union and Red China have been as successful as Hitler and Mussolini in making crime pay...
...Instead of threatening a complete trade boycott if the prisoners were not released, UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold went to Peking on a pleading mission which has not brought release of the fliers but has considerably increased Chinese Red prestige...
...If the non-Communist Asians ever come to feel that their Western allies are disposed to retreat whenever Communism threatens the peace, then the entire area could quickly become indefensible...
...The Soviet Government, in the face of overwhelming circumstantial evidence to the contrary, asserted that the massacre had been committed by the Germans, and used the request of the Polish Govern-ment-in-exile for an impartial Red Cross investigation as an excuse for breaking off diplomatic relations...
...Attlee, who imply that it is all the United States's fault are simply playing the Communists' game by dividing the public opinion of the Western countries...
...Britain shares many American ideals and interests, and is our strongest and most dependable ally...
...To egg the Communists on, as Mr...
...Hence the outrageous "trial" and sentencing of eleven American fliers who should have been repatriated with other war prisoners in 1953...
Vol. 38 • March 1955 • No. 10
