BRITAIN’S POLICY ON CHINA

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25998, 29 December 1949, Page 5

BRITAIN’S POLICY ON CHINA

America Said To Approve COMMUNIST VICTORY HELD “INESCAPABLE FACT” (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 10 p.m.) LONDON, December 28. “The total victory of the Chinese Communist forces is now recognised by the United States State Department as an inescapable if unpleasant fact, and the need for strengthening resistance to further Communist penetration in the rest of South-east Asia is now seen as paramount,” says the diplomatic correspondent of the Daily Telegraph.” ‘This entirely new American outlook on Far Eastern policy has been adopted within the last week by the United States R i r Dean A f heson )> nnd it has been conveyed to the British Government. . , J “'?fi, Br n ° n . the si ‘ uation in China was formulated at the British diplomatic and military conference in Sin gapore early last month. It has now been endorsed bv the United States Government, which attaches the highest import ance to the British Commonwealth foreign and economic policy conference in Colombo. F J “Members of the American diplomatic corps from all Far Eastern posts will meet soon in Bangkok, the capital of Siam.”