President Truman Hints At Indirect Government Help In Feeding Starving China

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27386, 11 May 1950, Page 7

President Truman Hints At Indirect Government Help In Feeding Starving China

New Zealand Press Association— Copyright

Rec. 10.10 p.m. WASHINGTON, May 9. President Truman today accused the Communists of starving China to help to feed Russia. The President’s speech is interpreted as a sign that the United States will not soon recognise the Communist Government in China but that the United States, working through private American agencies, will do what she can to feed the hungry people there irrespective of their form of Government.

President Truman said the Chinese Communists had been heartlessly indifferent to the worst famine in China for 100 years and had even sent to the Soviet Union food which was desperately needed by the Chinese. The United States recently had been unable to be of any assistance to the people of China but the Government was trying to find a way to get food into the hands of private agencies for distribution. “The goals of stability and peace elsewhere in the world are clearly within our reach, although it will not be easy to offset Russia’s terrible tyranny.” the President said. “ Conflict in world affairs will be with us for a long long time. There is no quick way and no easy way to end it. The way to win is for the world's free nations to demonstrate clearly the superiority of the ideals of freedom over the iron hand of tyranny.”