CHINESE COMMUNISTS LED FROM ABROAD

Chronicle (Levin), 26 June 1947, Page 5

CHINESE COMMUNISTS LED FROM ABROAD

Received Wednesdav, 7 p.m. NANKING, June 24. Mr. Clicn Li Fu, a close associate of Goneralissimo Cliiang Kai-sliek and Alinister of Organisations, intertiewed today, said the (Jhinese Communist movement was part of a world eonspiracy of organised aggression directed bj a foreign power wliich sought to impose a Red totalitarian dictatorship upon all t'ree peoples. Alr. Chen estiinated that 80 per cent of the Chinese people were farmers essentially conservative and opposed to Communist doctrines but the Communist party had gained many tem porarv adherents because of poverty and the war's aftermath of devastation and misery. The Communists had taken full advantage of the popular unrest thereby engendered. That the Chinese Communists Were directed from abroad was proved by the faet that they always followed the Com munist party line and when that chang ed, tlie Chinese Communists, like those in the United States, readily ehanged with it. The Chinese Communists niain tained contact with and received support from Communist groups in United Btates, Japan and other countries. He declared that Communist infiltration in to the ranks of world journalism had en abled the Communists generally to gei a good press. He added that Leftist writers in the United States had offered tlie greatest assistance to the Chinese Reds. Mr. Chen asserted that the Communist claims that they had efl'ected widespread reforms in the regions they eon quered were not borne out by the facts. Arr. Chen said the Chinese Communists made a special effo rt to infiltrate into schools, eultural organisations, the press and radio. Emphasising that the Communist land reforms were merelv propa ganda, Mr. Chen explained that the Communists divided the land into equai portions regardless of fcrtility or the industry and experience of the persons receiving i)lots, whereas the traditional family svstem divided the land among a man's sons when the owner died.