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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26628, 26 November 1947, Page 5

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AMERICAN AID TO CHINA DANGERS OF COMMUNIST VICTORY Rec. 9 p.m. NEW YORK, Nov. 24. Unless the United States Government sent aid to China, 450,000,000 free Chinese might fall into Communist hands, said the Governor of New York, Mr Thomas E. Dewey, in a speech tonight. Mr Dewey, who is mentioned as a probable candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination, strongly criticised the Administration’s policy towards China, claiming that the Government was bankrupt as far as its Chinese policy was concerned. He added that comparatively small expenditure by the United States would produce enormous results. Surplus army stores in the Pacific should be shipped to China and 100,000,000 dollars included in the emergency aid programme before Congress. “If China fails, we may reasonably assume that all Asia is gone and Western Europe and the Americas will then stand alone—very much alone—in a hostile world,” said Mr Dewey. A former Ambassador to France and Russia, Mr William Bullitt, suggested to-day that General MacArthur should be appointed Ambassador to China General MacArthur and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek could then work out a plan to prevent the conquest ol China oy the Soviet. Mr Bullitt said that Congress should immediately appropriate 75,000,000 dollars for China and give China thousands of tons of munitions and aircraft rotting in the Pacific.