AID TO CHINA
UNITED STATES POLICY REVIEW OF MILITARY ASPECTS N.Z.P.A.—Copyright Rec. 11 p.m. WASHINGTON, Nov. 1. The Communists’ military successes in Manchuria have speeded up a review of the United States policy on aid to China. Lieutenant-general Albert Wedemeyer, Chief of Army Planning, who was a war-time expert on China, is understood to be conducting a review of the military aspects of assistance. The question that has to be solved is whether any increase in military or economic aid, which would have to be voted by the new Congress, would be worthwhile and whether, in
fact, the current military and economic programmes can be continued in their present form. Military circles say frankly that they do not believe United States aid alone cun restore the position of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek’s forces. They say that as has been the case in Greece outside assistance cannot be a substitute for positive and effective action by an internal central authority. Reports that Chiang Kai-Shek is progressively losing authority while the war lords’ system is rising once again breeds doubt in Washington that such action is possible.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26918, 2 November 1948, Page 5
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184AID TO CHINA Otago Daily Times, Issue 26918, 2 November 1948, Page 5
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