Russian Help For China Reported Stopped

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29783, 28 March 1962, Page 13

Russian Help For China Reported Stopped

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright)

WASHINGTON, March 27.

The Soviet Union had now stopped all assistance to China, United States officials said last night.

They indicated that tills move by Moscow might not be entirely due to the Chinese-Soviet rift, but could have been influenced to some extent by the Soviet drive to assist other countries. The officials said that the Soviet Union was now assisting mainly non-Commun-ist countries, such as Indonesia and India.

food production and said it was probable that food output now was less per capita than in 1951. The same was also true in North Korea, they added. A “New York Times” correspondent said American authorities had concluded that the Chinese-Soviet rift would become deeper and be of long duration. The recent withdrawal of Soviet atomic scientists from China had been assessed as a sign of increasingly bad relations between the two Communist Powers. It was, however, only the latest in a long series of incidents which had reinforced the belief in authoritative United States quarters that the Soviet Union was worried over Chinese belligerency in international affairs.

had been cited as an example of its sensitive relations with the Chinese, the correspondent said. A complete rupture in Moscow-Peking relations, therefore, would pose a new problem, officials believed. This problem was that the Chinese might be freed from restraints in Moscow and attempt to project their power internationally before they could exercise it responsibly As for the position of Nationalist China in these assessments the United States policy was described as twofold:

Moscow and Peking were described as being engaged in a struggle, each trying to bend the Communist world to its own ends. Russia Concerned

The Soviet Union, with increased production of consumer goods, was becoming a “have" nation, the officials said. Moscow had a stake in the status quo and was opposed to taking chances that might jeopardise that status quo.

1 To continue to support Formosa's hold on the China seat in the United Nations because it fitted with the broad United States objectives.

Although efforts to achieve a settlement in Laos had not been going well the Soviet Union’s role in these efforts

2 To refrain from participating in any w'ay with any Nationalist Chinese effort to regain the mainland by force.

Officials stressed the problems China was facing in