ASIA POLICY CRITICISED

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27400, 13 July 1954, Page 11

ASIA POLICY CRITICISED

New Approach Sought

WASHINGTON, July 10. “The Chinese Communists are clear in their own minds that no military threat of ours will be carried through to conclusion," said Senator R E Flanders (Vermont) in the Senate today. The senator made two proposals in a Senate speech, taking both the Eisenhower and Truman Administrations to task and calling for a different approach in opposing the Communist Chinese entry into the United Nations. He said: “We should go on the offensive for the hearts and minds of the Soviet people on the question of disarmament.” Congress and the Administration should “not use weasel words such as ‘She (Communist China) must not be admitted (to the United Nations) at the present time,’ or ‘until she has shown a willingness to abide by decisions of the United Nations.” “Let us say,” he added, “that when Communist China tears away its curtain and resumes intercourse with the Western world as freely as the nations of the Western world would now allow their people to inter-visit, intertrade, and inter-communicate, then we should be willing to reconsider our objections. Such a China will not be the Communist China of today.” Tactics in Korea Senator Flanders said the whole world had suffered from the decision not to permit General James van Fleet to pursue “a vanquished enemy at least to the narrow neck of Korea ” “The results have been that the Chinese Communists are clear in their own minds that no military threat of ours will' be carried through to a conclusion,” said Senator Flanders. next point is that we have probably lost the respect of Asia as a whole. We have no ambitions to be a great Power in the old sense, but we have given the Asians no substitute term by which to define our moral and material influence. “These losses have been compounded by recent unfortunate statements that we have not been able to back up by deeds.”

Senator Flanders said the United States was “now in the position of not actively supporting Asia for the Asians.”