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Naw tUsAmh WU 1 RAM, TMURADAY OSC EMSgR 3, means better training, better pay and better professional - Relling Out the Red Carpet Status to get and to keep better men—are urgently required. ye As the greatest world power, the United States can . afford the best diplomatic force. It cannot afford to tne vy (entrust its blue chips to amateurs or second-raters in a s.{game where the stakes are the peace of the world. +. Headline: “Dirty City Streets Laid to Residents.” Maybe so, but don't let's blame them for the very — noticeable neglect of too many subway atationa and cars. uying Off Communists. 9 Apparently the notion will not die that the free world can buy off totalitarianism by practicing appease- ment and paying blackmail. That theory was employed at Munich. It failed to buy peace with Fascism. It has failed to buy a live-and-let-live understanding with Communism. Yet there are those who would keep on trying. Among them is Pearl Buck, who hails the dawn of a “new day” in China as the Red tide sweeps toward the Yangtze. Writing in the United Nations World, she urges that we throw our support behind the Communists, if and when they take over. “Short-sighted and reluctant persons may say, ‘why not let the new government fail, especially if it should be Communist?’’ she remarks. “Because, if it is Commu- nist, others will not let it fail. If it is not supported and thereby shaped by American aid, it will be supported and {shaped by ald from Soviet Russia.” That, in our opinion, is nonsense. How much policy-shaping did our money do in ‘uposlavia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary or Albania? It was used to make Communism a going concern, and then the Communists kicked us in the teeth. Why should we repeat that experience in China? i’ Mao Tse-tung, leader of the Chinese Communists, made ‘his position clear the other day, He pledged his follow- » Jers to complete solidarity with Russia as a “bulwark” » {against ‘American imperialists.” He rejected any mid- dle-of-the-road compromise as “utter hypocrisy and bankruptcy,” which it is. {+ Is Miss Buck kidding herself, or trying to kid the American people? ‘ - and scrences, OTHE