“CHINA’S DESTINY”

Grey River Argus, 4 January 1946, Page 5

“CHINA’S DESTINY”

Chiang Kai-Shek’s Book FASCIST TENDENCY ALLEGED

(Rec. 11.25) WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 A correspondent of the New York “Herald Tribune” learns that the U.S. Secretary of State (Mr. J. F. Byrnes) has refused a request by representative Hugh Delacy (Democrat Washington) to see the State Department’s translation of General Chiang Kai-shek’s allegedly Fascistic book, “China’s Destiny,” on the ground that publication of the document might jeopardise current Chin-ese-American negotiations. State Department, sources said that full translation of the book was not available elsewhere in ..the United States, because the Chinese censorship has forbidden the export of any translation from China, while the first edition issued several years ago in China had been recalled and ’destroyed. Officials added that the State Department considered the translation of the book a top secret because it was brought from China in a diplomatic pouch. Intelligence officers reported that the book contained passages “which might be very unfavourable to the British and American Governments.” Mr. Delacy said that the only information Congress has concerning the book is through newspapermen returning from China, who have read private translations. Chinese censors have confiscated all of these translations.

NATIONALISTS AND COMMUNISTS.

CHUNGKING, January 2. The Chinese Central Government is taking over Jehol as a matter of course, and its administrators are immediately following the nationalist troops entering the province. The Government spokesman, P. H. Chang, in stating this, added the Government had every right to do it. There were no Communist troops in Jehol before Japan’s collapse, and contrary to the Communist claim, democratic rule had not been established. A Communist spokesman declared that Communists will resist any attack against them in Jehol, and added: “This is civil war.” At Yolgan, Yu Pin Chang was executed by a firing squad of Chinese Communists. The Communists stated he extorted upward of a billion dollars from people for support of Japanese-controlled Government of Inner Mongolia as Vice-Chairman of (he puppet regime. They said he told a tribunal: “I have no excuse for serving the Japanese. I deserve to die for high treason.”