CHINA’S CHANGE OF RULERS HAS WEST POWERS THINKING

Grey River Argus, 7 October 1949, Page 5

CHINA’S CHANGE OF RULERS HAS WEST POWERS THINKING

(Rec. 10.10). NEW YORK, Oct. 5. The United States had decided not to send its Ambassador, Mr Leighton Stuart, back to China, the New York Herald-Tribune reported to-day. The State Department considered that relations with the Nationalist Government no longer required the presence of an Ambassador. It added Sir Ralph Stevenson had returned to London for consultation, and it was unlikely he would return to China until a decision was made on recognition of the Chinese Communist regime.

LONDON, October 6.

Moscow radio announced the appointment of Mr N. V. Roshtchin as the Russian Ambassador to the Chinese Communist Republic. The radio said that an exchange of diplomatic representatives was agreed to after the Chinese Communist Foreign Ministry had expressed its gratitude to Russia as the first State to establish diplomatic relations with’ the Chinese Communist regime,

The Yugoslav Government has recognised the Chinese People's Republic. In Canton the Foreign Minister, Dr. George Yeh, announced that the Chinese Nationalist Government had decided to sever diplomatic relations with Czechoslovakia.

U.S. Warning Against Chinese Blockade (Rec. 9.35). WASHINGTON, Oct. 5. The acting U.S. Secretary of State, Mr James Webb, to-day warned the Chinese Nationalist Government that it would take “a serious view” if any harm came to American nationals on United States ships attacked while entering the Communist-held ports. H e declined to predict what action the United States would take. He said there were no plans to escort American vessels. LONDON, October 6. "The Times” said:' It seems only too likely that the question of recognising General Mao Tse-tung’s "Chinese People’s -Government” will become caught up in political passions. The Russians have already, and quite deliberately, helped to distort the question by rushing in to recognise the new Government, well ahead of the rest of the world —and well ahead of events, for the Chinese Nationalist Government, though pitifully weak, has still a broad foothold on the Chinese mainland. The Russians, by acting too 1 soon and by making their political motives plain, have made sure of a bitter debate in the United Nations. They would be delighted if the Western delegates argued themselves into an attitude irrevocably hostile to the Communist regime in China.” The Times adds.—The purpose of recognition is severely practical and does not in itself betoken any special relations between two Governments. Recognition is not a certificate of like-mindedness, but it is opened useful to recognise Governments with a controversial policy, acknowledging that the new regime has, foi' better or for worse, joined the imperfect international community.