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ae ‘ oe . ae pam WFN:ame t NY 100-94061 "One the outstanding rallying points of the unaffiliated Chinese ~ in America is thier Chin Daily News in New Yorke This is controlled by an organization of laihdrynen. I understand that the shareholders number two or three thousand and that they take an active interast in the newspaper, The essential thing about these laundrymen is that in the nature of their business. . ‘they are independent small business men, This means that they are on the onehand fairly well insured against Communist ideology, since the small business » man of whatever nationality is likely to be a man who has made his way by his own initiative and enterprise and is therefore extremely suspicious of collectivist economic theories, On the other hand these Chinese small business proprietors are reluctant to submit themselves unquestioningly to the control of tha vested interests which have grown up in China in association with the dominant Kuomingtang,s The Yew China Daily News would probably not come under much pressure if it were not for the fact that it is one of the best edited Chinese papers in America with a growing circulations It does not need to be subsidized or supported by a patron like many, perhaps the majority of Chinese papers. It pays dividends on its om meritse A number of Chinese language papers in America receive subsidies fron the Kuomingtange At least two, and perhaps three, receive subsidies from the Wang. Ching-wel groupe One or two others trace back to the group within the ~ Kuomintang, which was at one time headed by the late Hu Han-min, a leader of a right-wing faction within the Kuomintange The angin group, though once reo garded as right-wing conservatives, are now regarded inhina as 'old—fashioned liberals'—- liberal, so to speak, short of the New Deal, They are less bitterly involved in Chinatorm politics than the Wang Ching-wei and Kuomintang groupse : The two latter, which are engaged in handing out carefully colored news and - doctored editorial policies, ara intensely jealous of and hostile to an unaffiliated paper like the New China Daily News which, so to speak, flaunts its sins by being so readable that the Chinese public in America buys it for its om sakes "It. would be rash to say that there are no Communists connected with the New China Daily News, Here it is necessary to consider another peculiarity of the politics of Chinese living out of China. These Chinese are far from being tied to the chariot wheels of Moscow; but when it comes to resisting the trend toward totalitarian regimentation within China they are often willing to support parts of the program advocated by the Chinese Canmmunists within China. This is so much a part of the pattern of politics of Chinese living out of China that it is not uncommon to find wealthy men, even millionaires, supporting the orogrem of the Chinese Camunists in whole or in part. This was, for instance, conspicuous in Malaya before the fall of Singapores For such prosperous and independent Chinese it was a question either of backing their independent judgment of the steps that needed to be taken toward creating a working democracy within China, or of paying . financial tribute to the Kuomintang, which sometimes tends to be autocratic, and ne _ ~ -_ oe te —_-— ——--- ae " a we ee oote NO _ coe} wa AS Nie teal, es papa Se ee hr ae Neal Ser up ay see nn AR eR a cy Salle ae PE ON a tn