What Will Follow Red Victory?

Chronicle (Levin), 8 January 1949, Page 5

What Will Follow Red Victory?

Received Friday, 8.50 p.m, "W ASHIN GTON, January 7. A plea for rapid action to aid. China before it is too late was made today by Mr. William C. Bullitt, former United States Ambassador to Moseow and Paris. Mr. Bullitt made tlie appeal in .a report submitted to the Congressional "watchdog" committee 011 I'oreign and ecoiiomie aid whicli seiit him to China late in 1948. Mr. Bullitt said ihe Nationalist forces would require Ameriean direetion -and eontrol exereised by a fighting general to defeat the Communists, adding tliat the Nationalist's had no general with the military training and lechnical skill to meet the attack of the Conimiuiist anny 2,000.000 strong. "If we deeido to abandon Asia to the Communists let it be done with the i'ull knowledge that we are reversing the policy oi President Roosevelt and Mr. Cordell Hull and probably adding to thefoes oi' the United States not only 450,000,000 Chinese but also all the other inhabitants of Asia. .ti! the Communists conquer- South China it will not be long bei'ore they seize -Jndochina, Siam, Burma and Mai ava. IIow long then will it be before Indonesia and India f all into their handsf" . Mr. Bullitt said the Chinese soldier when well tramed, well ted and well led, was equal in endurance and rnorale to any in the world, Manv of the n.e.o.'s, lieutenants and eapt.ains were good, but many of the officers from the rank of major upward were both ineompetent and dishonest— espeeially the generals. _ After reporting to the committee at a closed session Mr. Bullitt told reporters that he thought an Ameriean general with a staff of 000 officers should be sent to China, adding: "I believe General MacArtlmr could do the job in less time than any other general." Senator Bridges, committee chairman, said members were imprcssed by the desperateness of the situation, but they were taking no action' and none was expeeted until the new Congress organises a new comniittee. The present group was organised by a liepublican-controllod Congress. , There is evidenee in llongkong that indicates that the bommunists are prepared to advance provinee by provinee to the bordei's oi' Indochina and Burma, says the New York Times' llongkong correspondent. Ameriean and British observers who have'access to information of the Communist plans believe that the Communists do not expect the fighting to end by negotiation. The Communists apparentlv think the Nationalist leaders won t surrendel' and that even if Nanking capitulates the provmcial warlords and governors will eling to power. _ The controlling l'actor of Communist strategy is their latent streno-tli in South (hina where neutral observers believe they could straimle the big cities at anv time. Military men sav Canton is militaUdv indefensible. The Communists are taking pains "otto offend the British. in llongkong whicli is extremely valuable to the Communists as a haven and port of entry.