WARNING TO CHINA

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26492, 6 August 1951, Page 7

WARNING TO CHINA

Relations With Russia in W „£ r<ss Ass °ciaUon—Copyright) (R PJ 2-L T P kyo - August 5. «=iS ei + Ridgway s headquarters contin2pd a rw hat if Kore *n war contmued China would eventually go M5 rshal Tito’s Jugoslavia. TTnitoH n KT ~h lde° us pounding from Nations does Chinese-Soviet statement” 0 good at a11 ’” said the

_ o _n USS / a x S , sc J iem e in Korea was partly intended to weaken China. A?L Ru^ lan str ategy has made the ir-l ne f e P omm unists less sure that the Kremlin is a friend. aR . China has fought and bled Rl i ss 3?- looked on. To Mr Mao T-e Tung this could hardly look like bosom comradeship.” 1 The statement also said that the Communist war plans in Korea had gone horribly wrong and added that as a result they had been forced to make drastic changes in future operations.

The statement added: “The calculating, twisted intellects of the Communist leaders who thought up the invasion of Korea reasoned that no matter whether the war was long or short they would win. “If the war lasted only a couple of weeks they would lose little and gain the whole country, but if the United Nations aided Korea they would then proceed to drain away its strength until finally the free world would be semi-exhausted. Then the Reds would step in and take over. “Instead of draining away the strength of the free world the dangers in Korea awakened it, and now the democracies are much stronger and more alert than 12 months ago."