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“McCarthy’s 3 Victims” By Josepialsop | An Open Letier oT A aw =. AFTER long hesitation, T am impelled by The appalimnig elects in Fut Tope Or ME MCCarhy wiHeny hunt To oer my lestiniongy” to your ir committee, for for what it may be worth. THs for two reasons. First, ‘T have already sharply crili- cized the conduct of our al- fairs in China on several occa- sions. Second, ] was intimately invol¥ed in the events which Jed to the luss of China. whereas Senators MeCarthy, Wherry and Tatt and their informants are offering second-hand evidence "his evidence is so obvioush orrupted by political and othe bessures that it is a duly to cor fect the impression conveyed. « Stating the case as briefly as possible, J] think it fair to say that the readly crucial vears in China were those when Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell commanded ihe China-Burma-India theater, from 1942 to 1944. In this period, Professor Lattimore, who was always at best a fringe figure, played his most important role in our China policy. as a personal adviser to Generalis- simo Chiang Kai-shek. In this rather brief assignment, he ac- eomplished nothing. hut he was quite obviously loyal both to the American Government and to Generalissimo Chiang. Professor Lattimore had nt pert whatever in the real de bale about China policy, int wee the different points o vilw have been fantastically misrepresented by Senator Me- Carthy and his friends. Ko in- formed person ever supposed that offering blank checks io the National government of China would accomplish anything. Those who advocaled a strong policy of aiding the National government only did so with the ‘ Wedemeyer’ command. It should \ proviso that the aid given would , closely controlied by Amer cin representatives on the spot aq it was during the shoft an sdceesstul period of General Sener? that the congeessHel advocates of postwar aid, to China specifically rejected the responsibility involved in this sort of Jocal, on the spot eon- trol, in the first major bill ap- propriating funds for the pur- pose during General Marshall's Secretaryship of State. oes RETURNING to the vastly more important war period, the other school of thought was com- osed primarily of General Stil- ‘ell and his political advisers. Reneral Stibwell, so far as one gould judge. was chiefly anf mated by his personul detestap lion of Generalissimo Chiang, arising from their disagreement His political advisers, among whom was Mi John_Stewart Servicé, were operating on a more reasoned theory, however, They asserted: first, that the National government was too feeble and corrupt ever to he reformed, even with American help and under direct American pressure. They said, second, that the Chinese Com- munisis were therefore bound o win in the end. he matter vhat measures might be taken xy the United States. In the hird place, they argued that he Soviet Union, insofar as it had intervened in Clina at all, had given all its assistance 1 the regime of Generalissims Chiang Kai-shek rather than t the Communists, who receive no tangible Russian aid what- ever until the war was over, Fourthly, they suggested that the Chinese Communists might be induced to declare their in- dependence of the Kremlin if they were treated as friends and allies by the United States. Opening friendly relations and offering aid to the Chinese Com- faunists was frankly admitted, at the time, to be a bold gamble. The gamble now locks bett han it did then. On the on nd, the Yugoslay Communist hose experience was precise] hat the experience of the chi Wee Communists woathd have direct | 4-26- Tolson \ Ladd Ciegg Glavin Nich¢ys Rose Tracy ilitier 97-0 Belmon$/@ Lo Mohr Tele. Room__ Neage Tease f Sppay————s f we A been ; if they had received: . Afretremr aid, have Yew—res ffs, belled against the Kremlin, On the other hand. the recent be- - a havior of the Japanese Commu- i nist leader, Nosaka. a warlime i refugee at Yenan and intimate friend of Mao Tse-tung, clearly suggests that the idea of inde- pendence of the Kremlin must have been in the air in Com- »\ iuunist China in wartime, ows ‘MY RIGHT to speak, if I may be said to have a right to speak, rives from the fact that in war- me i was one of the chie merican opponents of thd sphool of thought I have sum arized above. AS a member o the staff of the American Vol-” unteer Group. as chief of the Lend-Lease Mission to China, and lly as an assistant to Dr. T. VfSoong, I did everything in ny Bower to present the pro- Nationalist point of view in in- fluential quarters in Washington. Those who wished to develop an American policy of friendship loward. and aid to. the Chinesq Communists were finally and de cisively defeated with iissal of General Octover, 144. the dig Stilwell, i This occurred STN Aa! ‘ Times-Herald Wash. Post Wash. News ae, Wash. Star N.Y. Mirror — | | Page “fH ee —