Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR NAACP The enlightening and inspiring article by Alfred Raker Lewis, "Fifty Years of the NAACP," (NL, June 29) will undoubtedly take its place among the historic documents of our...
...The students were often arbitrarily sent to North or Northwest China on construction work...
...1 would be even more surprised if her father did not...
...In addition, about 1,500 young people come here for their summer vacation...
...It was, therefore, somewhat astonishing that in the last third of the column Bohn should omit any mention of Truman in speaking of great Presidents...
...None of them has returned home because mainland China's accomplishments, as Spector puts it, overcame their "distaste...
...Besides spending the last nine years on Taiwan, I have visited Hong Kong, Korea, Japan and Manila in recent years...
...He was that kind of man...
...These men would certainly testify that Truman was the chief, and that it was he who made the decisions...
...There were 20 times as many overseas investors in 1957 as in 1951, still more this year, and the upswing continues...
...One of the early acts of the Reds in China was to disband all institutions for the blind, as well as leprosariums...
...The Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, the Point Four program, the North Atlantic Alliance, the Berlin Airlift, the intervention in Korea—these were acts of greatest statesmanship that changed the course of world history...
...Furthermore, if he thinks that there is any comparison between the withdrawal symptoms suffered by an alcoholic and those of an opiate addict, he should spend some time watching the latter take the "cold turkey" cure...
...Tn 1950, the total number of such visitors was less than 100...
...The General Agreements on Tariffs and Trade and the Marshall Plan—the only two specific programs mentioned—were initiated under Truman...
...I have had some recent correspondence with Ellen Clayton Garwood and have read the biography of her father...
...For a time, Chinese youth from Southeast Asia were pouring through Hong Kong into Communist China...
...Narcotics Laws...
...It is 40 years since I first went to China...
...DEAR EDITOR NAACP The enlightening and inspiring article by Alfred Raker Lewis, "Fifty Years of the NAACP," (NL, June 29) will undoubtedly take its place among the historic documents of our time...
...It seemed certain Bohn was talking about Truman's appointees when he compared the people who were in the State Department at the time of the Marshall Plan with the "pronouncement-making routineers" of today...
...As one who was privileged to work with Walter White, A. Philip Randolph...
...Another 3,500 are enrolled in the Overseas Chinese Correspondence School courses...
...This trend has been drastically reversed in the last few years, as the education proved to be more political than academic, with great shortages of qualified teachers and inadequate laboratory and research facilities...
...We have been in a position to witness a great change in the attitude of the Overseas Chinese vis-a-vis both free and occupied China...
...It was under Truman that the United States first assumed its responsibilities in world affairs...
...I would be surprised if she did not agree with this conclusion...
...And therein lies the perniciousness of the addiction...
...Peking made a great bid for the Overseas Chinese youth through offers of free education in the "motherland...
...In contrast, the number of Overseas Chinese students in Taiwan has grown from 70 in 1951 to nearly 8.000 today...
...In the nine years I have been on Taiwan, I have seen an amazing increase in the numbers of Overseas Chinese making goodwill visits to the Republic of China...
...in emphasizing that drug addiction is not a police problem...
...however...
...that the Communist regime clamped down on exit permits in an effort to stop the exodus...
...JOSEPH M. JONES...
...and make no mistake about it, the decision in each case was that of Truman...
...For his leadership in world affairs alone, he will probably rank in history as one of our greatest Presidents...
...They come from 27 different countries...
...Will Clayton was a great and wise and influential man, but during the years of great accomplishment in foreign policy he was part of a team, a team headed and appointed by Truman, which included Secretary of State George C. Marshall...
...Despite the 84-year old physician, and the 66-year old widow, opium addicts do not continue taking the same dose...
...They have joined the Overseas Chinese as an educated and technically-trained minority...
...Sparks is correct...
...Washington, D.C...
...There are more than a hundred students in free China from each of the following places: North Borneo, Cambodia, the Philippines, Thailand, Korea, Malaya and Singapore, Indonesia, South Vietnam...
...Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Secretary of Commerce Averell Harriman, and others of high caliber...
...After 10 years of an occupation which so many Westerners consider permanent, the exodus of freedom-loving people from Red China continues at the rate of 1,000 a month...
...Every Communist measure that has suppressed individual freedom, from the "people's communes" to the ruthless cruelty in Tibet, has contributed to the progressive alienation of the Overseas Chinese...
...Layle Lane and others in organizing the original "March on Washington," and who was among the special committee that discussed the issue with President Roosevelt at the White House, permit me to suggest that Lewis' article be reprinted in a brochure for distribution throughout the world, especially among the people in lands where the untainted seeds of true democracy are beginning at last to take root...
...In recent months, some 400 Chinese blind arrived as refugees in Macao, creating a problem for the Portuguese...
...July 6), but he writes nonsense when he reaches the opiates...
...They do not break their heads against a stone wall...
...In addition, the Overseas Chinese look more and more to Taiwan for technical help in both agriculture and industry, including assistance with a caustic soda plant in the Philippines, a fisheries corporation in North Borneo, a tobacco plant in Timor, a textile factory in South Vietnam...
...By 1957, it was over 4,000...
...Consider also the Overseas Chinese investment in the rapidly expanding industry of Taiwan...
...In carrying Lewis' article, the NEW LEADER once more demonstrated its traditional record of loyalty to those socially enlightened principles which have shaped the course of my life, and which will eventually triumph over all forms of dictatorship...
...As many as 200 fishermen at a time, together with their families and their junks, come out at great personal risk of being fired on by Communist patrol boats...
...In the context of the correspondence and the column, the omission was invidious...
...It was no accident that he surrounded himself with statesman-like men and created an atmosphere in which great things were accomplished...
...My husband has made three trips through Southeast Asia...
...What most Westerners fail to understand is that it is in the nature of the Chinese people to bow to the inevitable...
...for the ruthless-ness and regimentation of the Communist order in China...
...His pains are indescribably more acute...
...New York City THOMAS L. JELTRUP TRUMAN Reading the first two-thirds of William E. Bohn's column...
...Statesmen and Presidents," (NL, June 22), I thought that surely both he and Ellen Clayton Garwood had President Truman in mind when speaking of the accomplishments when Will Clayton was in the Department of State...
...They take increasingly larger doses...
...So many thousands of disillusioned students left the mainland (with hundreds still stranded in Hong Kong...
...Like the bamboo, they bend but do not break...
...Hong Kong and Macao...
...My husband's work for five years was resettlement of those Chinese "intellectuals" who, as Spector observed, have an importance in overseas communities beyond their numerical strength...
...Much of what he "learned" on his present trip is already out-dated...
...New York City FRANK R. CROSSWAITH Chairman, Negro Labor Committee OVERSEAS CHINESE In his article, "Overseas Chinese" (NL, June 1), Stanley Spector shows a fine academic knowledge of the history of the Overseas Chinese, but it is well that he considers his "evaluations of their attitudes" tentative, because the Chinese do not open up to a casual visitor...
...Leonia, N. J. GERALDINE FITCH NARCOTICS William Sparks' remarks on marijuana are sound enough ("The Folly of U.S...
...Since the initial exodus of two million Chinese to Taiwan, at least 1.5 million more have fled, and this is powerful evidence that the people inside China hate this regime...
...They are more likely to agree than to argue...
...This past year it was well over 13,000...
...We have the case histories and personal experiences of hundreds of these—part of the million and a half who have fled Mao's "paradise" into Hong Kong and Macao...
Vol. 42 • August 1959 • No. 30
