SOVIET POLICY IN CHINA

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26018, 23 January 1950, Page 7

SOVIET POLICY IN CHINA

Mr Vyshinsky Replies To Mr Acheson

ANNEXATION PLAN DENIED (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) * (Rec. 8.30 p.m.) MOSCOW, Jan. 21. The recent statement on Russian policy in China by the United States Secretary of State (Mr Dean Acheson) was “so absurd and monstrous that we at first doubted its genuineness,” said the Soviet Foreign Minister (Mr A. J Vyshinsky), to-day. Mr Vyshinsky, in a long statement, gredicted new failures for United tates policy in Asia. He said Mr Acheson’s charges that Russia was annexing northern areas of China were ridiculous. Mr Vyshinsky continued: “It is easy to see that, in Mr Acheson’s statement, there is not a word of truth. He wishes to criticise the foreign policy of Russia, and by doing so shift responsibility on to Russia for the failure of his own policy. “Posing as the protector of China and having said many stupidities about the Soviet, Mr Acheson did not think that the facts would contradict his slanderous statement about Russia. Mr Acheson forgets that now China ’ has its own national Government, which knows how to defend the interests of its country’s territory, and that relations between the People’s Republic of China and the Soviet Union are conducted by this Government. “Mr Acheson’s- declaration about the annexation of the Mongolian Republic by Russia is astonishing because of its insolently lying character. Everyone knows, and no normal person doubts that Manchuria, Inner Mongolia, ana Sinkiang continue to be part of China. “If. in spite .of this, Mr Acheson thinks fit to engage in spreading slanderous rumours about the annexation of these territories by Russia, it is evident that he does so. not because he feels happy, but because he is compelled to do so by the failure of his policy in China.”