PACIFIC PACT

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25878, 10 August 1949, Page 7

PACIFIC PACT

CHINESE NATIONALIST INTEREST IN PLAN

(Rec. 11.30 p.m.) 1 w YORK, August 8. General Wu Tieh-chen, an important figure in the Kuomintang (the Chinese Nationalist Party), said in Formosa to-day that he would probably go 4° A ok Z° to discuss proposals for a Pacific Pact with General MacArthur And other American officials. He s he believed there Was every possibility that an alliance would be formed.

General Wu was formerly DeputyPrime Minister of China and Secre-tary-General of He is a member of the Nationalists’ supreme policy-making council, but said he would go to Tokyo in his capacity as president of the Chinese People’s Foreign Relations Association. The current move towards the establishment of a Pacific pact is a move in the right direction,” the “New York Times” said in a leading article to-day. “We want security and stability in that part of the world, no less than do its own residents. “We are at the moment not at all Sure how we can make the most effective contribution, but our confusion as to the means should not be allowed to obscure our singleness of mind as to the ends.

“The basic thing involved here is that the Filipinos. Chinese, and Koreans have established an essential like-mindedness on matters of supreme concern. The cruel pressure of a grievous danger has stimulated this meeting of minds. We will be well advised if we explore with them the ways in which we also are and ought to be involved, and how far we can wisely move towards a closer rapprochement. • “This is not merely a technical matter of a regional pact; it is a sniritual matter of knowing our friends and dealing with them.”