CHINA’S CIVIL WAR

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26703, 24 February 1948, Page 5

CHINA’S CIVIL WAR

AMERICAN INTERVENTION ALLEGED MR HENRY WALLACE CRITICAL Rec. 9 p.m- NEW YORK, Feb. 22. American Army officers are training the new Chinese Government forces, and American bases “ are now being secretly erected in Tsingtao and Formosa,” said Mr Henry Wallace today. Accusing the Truman Administration of military intervention in China, Mr Wallace added: ‘‘The Seventh Fleet and other units’ cruise constantly in Chinese waters, over 25.000 of our armed services are involved. A total of 271 American naval vessels and large quantities of aircraft and other war supplies have been turned over to Generalissimo Chian Kai-shek for the civil war.”

Mr Wallace said that Mr Truman’s request for an additional 570,000,000 dollars for “ the corrupt Chiang Government is one more phase of our financial and military intervention there. The situation in China is tragic proof of the inevitable failure of our present foreign policy of which the Marshall Plan is part. Sending money and military supplies to bolster reactionary Governments against the will of their peoples serves the cause of reaction and war. not democracy and peace.” Mr Wallace asked Congress and the American, people to reject the President’s programme, and urged all possible aid to the Chinese people through the United Nations, such aid to be given once peace is established so that reconstruction is possible.