West Bargain With Reds Will Not Save HongKong-Dr Koo
NEW YORK. Oct. 19. It was only wishful thinking to imagine that an agreement concluded with the Chinese Communist regime about Hong Kong would ensure the island’s security, said the Chinese Ambassador. Dr. Wellington JKoo, in a speech at Baltimore yesterday. He urged the Western democracies not to recognise or trade with Communist China because, he said, that would “strengthen the Communists’ grip on the country and help to enslave the pepple.” Dr. Koo said: “There are statesmen in the West who even believe they can save their country's colonial
possessions on the Chinese coast by entering a formal agreement with the Communist regime, but it is only wishful thinking to imagine that an agreement concluded with the Communist regime about Hong Kong, for example, will ensure the island’s security.”
Dr. Koo said the Communists were threatening all South-East Asia with eventual invasion and subjugation. All Asia itself might fall under Communist rule and become a base of operations against the rest of the free world.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23083, 22 October 1949, Page 5
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