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C WEN: ame = sah “NE 100-9406 ©: 7 a eet tnot infrequently spurns advice from Chinese abroad at the same time that it demands their financial contributiongde "In the specific setting of America, it is the independent small — businessman — like the laundryman +~ rather than the very few wealthy merchants - who most conspicuously maintain this tradition of political independences In America, some of the most wealthy individuals are either committed to Wang — Ching-wai and his puppet Japanese party or at least are hedging until they have “a better idea of how the war is finally going to turn out. “In the circumstances we have to be extremely careful about our Chinese personnel. While we need to avoid recruiting any Chinese Communists we must be careful not to be freightened out of hiring people who have loosely been accused of being Communists. We have to be at least equally careful of not hiring people who are pipelines to the Wang Ching-wei or to one or other of the main factions, — within the Kuomintang. After all, as an American Goverrment agency we should deal with the Chinese Government or regular agencies of the Chinese Government, but should not get in the position of committing ourselves to the Kuomintang, the political party which controls the Chinese Yovernment, as if it were itself the Chinese Government. You will recognize the importance of this preposition and the delicacy which it requires on the operational level. "For our purposes, it is wise to recruit as many unaffiliated Chinese "as we can, to pick people whose loyalty will be reasonably assured on the one hand by the salaries which we pay them and on the other hand by the fact that they do not receive salaries fr subsidies from somewhere elses WYresChi and vir NGhewNiong, both of our New York office, conform ex— cellently to these requirements. Mr. Chi I have known for many years. Until . his family estates were occupied by the Japanese, he was a wealthy landlord. He was brought up in the older scholastic tradition in China, before the spread of modern western education, but at the same time he is keenly interested in the national unification of hina and the orderly development of a stable political organization there. I know by long experience that he is anything but a Comnunist; I also know that because of his seniority, his background of independent wealth, and his superior mentality he is not a man to be pushed around by party bureaus cratsg Chew Hong is a much younger man, but one whom Dr, Chi trusts and of whose integrity he 1s convinced. There is something in their relationship of the old Chinese standards of disciple aad master. As long as Dr. Chi stands in tha _. 30 << 3, a ee iment tani fle hee meaner RRS le re tr