MAY LEAVE CHINESE TO OWN DEVICES

Chronicle (Levin), 27 November 1946, Page 5

MAY LEAVE CHINESE TO OWN DEVICES

AMERICA TIRED OF ACTING AS PEACEMAKER Received Tuesdav, 11.50 p.m. NEW YORK, Xov. 2(5. The break-down in the Ooninuunst Kuoniintang negotiations faees tlie United States with tlie questiou whether it should not diseontinue the ■elalionite nuudunery of Anierican mediation and leave the Uhinose to their own deviees, says the Jlerald Tribune's Peiping correspondent. Tlie United States Marines' strengtli has alreadv been redureil from 50,000 t » 20,000 and there are widespread nmiours of furfher inipending reduc tions. Whether tlie retention of the Yrarines in ('hina is worth the dauiage Anierican prestige i.-- sun'eriug is de batable, but as long as they reinain t!u Uommnnists will possess an eil'ective propaganda weapon. General .Mai shall's visit io X'ortli Uhina, who ro he is conferring with the First Marino Division and tnu-e headquarters, points to the faet that Ameriean policy is alreadv at the cmssroads. The Uliinesi political situation lias apparently reaehod an impasse. but neitlier sid' has yet closed the door oompletely ti further negotiations. Kach clings to the hope of ultimatelv woaring d o w i the opposition to the point of jiolitica surrender.

Uhiang Kai-shek oomplicated ('hina 's strained political situation today wlien he told (ielegates to tlie Xational As sembly at Xanking that they eonld re opou discusison on the draft of China's new Uonslitution. Chiang earlier promised the Sooial Democratie Party as tlie price for it« partieipat ion in the Assembly that he would endeavour to "pass tlie draft in its present forni. A Kuoniintang delegate at the Assembly 's first business session protested that Chiang's pledgc was an uiideinocratio deterrent to the expressiori of the Assemldv's will. Uhiang .thep direoterL th'e delegates to disouss tlie Constitution saying that they were in no wav shaoklpd by tlie resolntions drawn up last winter by the Political Uonsultative Uouncil.