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Upon the United States. in The mean: time, will fall the responsibility of action oor ne action. and the respon. sibility is equally heavy whatever is done. What then, can the United States do in the vacuum created because the United Nations cannot vet move with power? First of all. Americans can and must realize that what is going on in China is not an ideological strug- 7 gle, except in the minds of a few in- tellectuals and politicians who cannot _ themselves understand their own peo- ple. Unless Americans understand fully that all ideologies are nuw mere- ly_incidental, anything they do will be of no. significance. It will be ~ wasted as the billions of Ameriran dollars poured into China since V-J Day have been wasted. Some Chinese armies, equipped with American trucks and American weapons, have deserted wholesale to the Communist side. To give money and equipment to those whom the people have re- jected is folly indeed. If the United States chooses, never- theless, to persist in this folly with any hope of success, it will be nec- essary to commit it on a grand scale. It will be necessary to send American _ armies to China to fight those «hom the Chinese will not fight. This wouk Be at Irnighiful cost. Ti might, indeed. be the beginning of the Third World War. What would make such action the ultimate folly. so far as the Amer- ican people are concerned, is that the Chinese people would not support the American armies. The United States would find itself in the ridiculous po- sition of going forth to “save” there who do net want such salvation be- cau-e thes do not believe it will reals save them. Americans would find themselves on Chinese soil, fighting Soviet-backed forces on one front anil the Chinese people on the other. Pt is too date for this sort of help. What Amerte dhs have failed te under-tand is that dt has been deo bate ever since the end of the Second World Was Alb that dias beeen dhone se far bas net nerved the €hine se poeple. Realising. thes hat the pore seat warn Ching je neta war of ident’ opies, we rags | fee or plan af , Gefinste cereb os ceteetaare teye ae tieete bee Merve npeat aa sebeebeces haat oa peceeple Bah. pores ety tere TEER hy Chinese ett rad ow Tb raced we bosape Hew geveagtitie sl fer dhetaeedye = Db art dn peyecdion Phe Raves wheal thes want and if the poverument ther have dees not give it te them. thes reject it He they jeet their present government, there ate twe possitil- ities of a new goverment te he set up out of the present war. The first is a Nationalist pevernment so re- formed that if amounts to a new one, even to coalition of present opposing forces. The second is the emergence of a group of men who would declare themsches victors and assume power, Whatever the new gevernment. it would probably be made up of men inexperienced in such power. They would not know how to make a gev- ernment or to govern. They may know what the people want but it is doubtful whether they will know how to give it to them. They may have controlled segments of the people in rough-and-ready, semi-military fash. ion, but of the organization and ad- ministration of a nation they can have no conception. And the people will be impatient. Twenty years they have given to Chiang Kai-shek. but this time there will be no 20 years. When Chiang tame to power the people were still fairly well off. Today they are des- perate. A new government will be compelled to work quickly —far more quickly than it can possibly do, un aided. WHAT THE FUTURE CAN BRING - KOR CHINA AND FOR THE US Aid must) come from somewhere. and it will come. Tf the United States pursucs it short-sighted policy and refuses aid exeept on ideological agreement, then Asia is lost to the West. Bur if somewhere can be found afew American men whe understand the meaning of what ot soing oan in China and its full significance ina watld of peoples mos ing inthe sare dtrecfien, then thes will somehow and over alb obstacles get wid te the Chinese people by whatever govern: neat there as. The wall send ford te Chara or sae hy qiaaatie= that the cen tere ceed starsatiers all de qaneted. Phiey wal were! tecdbaaeuais fe pout eee URE Ee ap betes Winter woorhang ordet ee tbnat the ssepypdae - Cf feed wdc te thasrce teas canter bee dhetribute dd. Dies wath couse tre seb tips etiam r ites preerge nde wha well ote ake prosetth forthe jereolie Victe ceb Te tty deeveed creed vonade this wadl ae stort make the ooue nti gd fares daeety ue eft by te possible, without stopping to quibble aver ideclugies or even to count the rost, ‘ Oaly thus can the people be won, and thal new government, whatever it is, will know it. Its very existence will depend upon swiftness. And that is America’s chance. The investment will be repaid a Uhousandfold in world stability. For inevitably that new gosernment will learn through the thorough-going and practical aid which Americans alone, out of their plenty. can give. The new government ‘ * will become dependent upon this aid : and long before they can function in- ” dependently they will have become -——~ ———— shaped by it. The alternative is no American aid, Short-sighted and reluctant persons may say, “Why not let the new gov- ernment fail, especially if it should be Communist?” Why not? Because if it is Communist, others will not let it fail. Hf it is not supported and there- by shaped by American aid, it will be supported and shaped by aid from Soviet Russia. Americans, however, have the edge in goods and techniques, and if these are used with the utmost and there- fore the most prudent generosity in speed and quantity, the Chinese peo- - ple themselves will decide against Communist ideclogy. Fer ideology alone is the stone which a man gives his son for bread. Ideology cannot ; feed the hungry or heal the sick or visit the man who is in prison. It is . only when ideology begins to do these practical things that it becomes dan- gerous —or effective, as the point of view may be. Americans themselves ought to know that now, after these years of seeing their own ideology fail, even when backed up in other a countries by American arms. : j There is still another possibility. : Chiang Kai-shek may retreat to the South and China may be divided into two parts, What then? If Americans still think in’ terms of ideology and 4 war, Teel siden the South. a Wihes think in terms of China, how: _ ever, thes will send aid to all Chinas people. under whatever ideulugy they live for the moment. Ideologies come and ge. Tut the people are eternal, ; “Po write these words in’ the small datkh hhenra ofa certam night. As , curely as TD know bowrite them } hnow that the dias will come. The people hall be served, Whe knows that first and acts upon it first will win the Se ee new dav.