“Chinese Behind Summit Failure”

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29221, 3 June 1960, Page 11

“Chinese Behind Summit Failure”

Mr Herter, in his attack on China, described the Peking Government as an outlaw and said it lay behind the collapse of the summit talks in Paris because it opposed any detente between East and West.

Mr Herter said that his opposition had been making itself manifest for some time before the summit and the Chinese view had found a reception among Russian military leaders.

.He said America had no intention of recognising the Communist Chinese regime. She was still an “outlaw” and wanted to absorb the smaller nations alona her perimeter Peking was the only Communist country which had not deplored the summit collapse ano who in fact had cheered it.

He said that the Chinese were very much opposed to Mr Khrushchev’s line of personal relationship with the heads of the freeworld countries and to his policy of peaceful coexistence. Expressing the belief that there did not seem to be a likelihood of Soviet action against Berlin, Mr Herter warned that changes in Soviet policy could take place very rapidly and that therefore the S.E.A.T.O oartners and all other non-Com-munist countries had to keep their guard up The Secretary of State read a summary of recent statements made by Peking Radio and the Chinese Communist newspapers, which, he said, had taken an extremely anti-American tone. He said the output from Peking was to the effect that the United States must be “kicked out” of the Pacific. Mr Herter said the Chinese Communists would make the abandonment of the Nationalists a condition of their participation in the United Nations They wanted to neutralise Japan Their objectives would be furthered by United Nations membership.