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CHOU EN-LAI

N A recent interview with American correspondents, General Chou En-lai said the situation had grown worse since General Marshall stepped into the U.S. State Department. Continuing American aid to Chiang Kai-shek, he charged, keeps the Nanking regime alive and sparks the civil war. =

General Chou is correct, as anyone who takes the trouble to look into the matter can discover. Continuing assistance to Chiang Kai-shek and new measures now planned, far overshadow the withdrawal of Marines and the postponement. of the half-billion dollar loan.

American military establishments now functioning in China may be listed as follows:

@ Operation MAGIC, consisting of some 5,000 Ameri- can military personnel attached to General Headquarters, continues to advise and train Chiang’s armies. American _ personnel, formerly attached to the so-called mediation _ teams, are being transferred to this outfit.

@ Through a joint Sino-American intelligence service, the United States cooperates with the Chinese Gestapo, which is directed by the CC clique. This group, criticized by Marshall as the extremist pro-civil war clique of the Kuomintang, is now strengthening its position in Chiang’s government.

® At Tsingtao, the American Navy is training Chinese officers and men to run 271 naval vessels transferred to China as part of the surplus property deal of last September.

@ A new airline under direction of General Chenault (retired), using American planes and American-trained pilots, helps maintain the supply end of Chiang’s miltary

By JAMES S. ALLEN

sistance to the corrupt and semi-fascist regime in Nanking is rising and not receding, as

administration spokesmen try to_ infer. Having dropped the pre-

tense of mediating the civil war, the United States has turned to an even greater incitement of the civil war in China.

“This

CHU TEH

Without American the Nanking regime would collapse.

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The possibility would thus arise

to establish a unified and dem- ocratic China, tial of peace

the basic essen-

is the professed aim of

American policy—now degraded

in the Far East.

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EAST known to the Ameri-

fan public is the scale of economic. aid to Chiang. The following can be mentioned: -

@ Chiang is now collecting $800,000,000 worth of equip- ment and material from United States bases in the Pacific area,

made available in the Septem- ~

ber deal-—the erant to China.

largest single

@ Cotton credits and UNRRA_

supplies, diverted for military purposes or for speculation, help to keep the Nanking dictator- ship alive. American cotton is used for uniforms.

However, even bigger deals are being prepared behind the back of the American people, and in sueh fashion as to avoid the necessity of Congressional approval, as follows:

@ Under the guise of advance reparations from Japan, General ‘MacArthur has already begun the transfer of Japanese equip- ment and material to Chiang.

FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1947

@ It is reliably reported that General MacArthur is seeking authorization from Washington to transfer to the Nanking gov- ernment the assets of the form- er Japanese-controlled puppet banks in China. ;

These assets, amounting to 10 billion yen, are now held in Japan. This would make avail- able to Chiang an immense sum for the purchasing of supplies in Japan for the civil war.

N sum, assistance now con-

tinuing or planned exceeds by far the aid extended dur- ing the period of mediation.

‘Furthermore, these forms of in-

direct aid permit the Truman administration to sidestep the public pressure that would arise from more obvious and direct measures, such as keeping the Marines in an area of combat and granting a direct loan.

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to the “level of bolstering bankrupt and corrupt dictator- ship.

‘Even with the air of MAGIC, hiang cannot win in China. Withdrawal of the eight meas- ures of aid here listed is the only magic that can bring about the immediate end of civil wat:

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