* Warns Americans
To Ready Reforms
For South Korea
Some Doubt If the Present
Policies Are Winning
Friends In Asia
William H. Stringer, cheif of
the London News Bureau of the
| » Christian Science Monitor, re
leased tne following story a few
days ago:
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Russia's well-contrived propa
ganda blasts at the United Na
tions Security Council this week
—directed straight toward Asiatic
ears—reemphasize the need for
the western nations and particu
larly the United States to de
velop a more perceptive and
three-dimensional policy toward
Asia.
Foreign policy is more than the
courageous and unhesitating
commitment of troops to counter
aggression. It is more than the
handout of Economic Coopera
tion Administration money. Right
now, in its nonmilitary phases as
perhaps in its military depart
ments, Soviet policy in Asia has
distinctly the upper hand over
American and western policy.
Richard Crossman, a British
member of Parliament, put it
perhaps to simply in the House
of Commons last week when he
remarked that in North Korea,
Russia had persuaded a colonial
army to fight for it, and to fight
effectively.
Largely, of course, this army
is the product of a police state.
But the North Korean regime
under Russian orders also carried
out extensive land and taxation
reforms. Sufficient people were
effectively indoctrinated with this
first phase of agrarian com
munism—the chains come later—
so that North Korea became a
useful and coordinated ally of
Russia.
When United Nations forces be
gin to work their way north
Doris Day and Gordon MacRae rehearse a musical number in this^
scene from Warner Bros.’ pay Technicolor film, “Tea For Two,”'
I opening at the Viccar Theatre on Sunday. Gene Nelson. Billy l)e
Wolfe and Eve Arden round out the big cast.
again, they may discover that
similar quick application of Com
munist agragian reforms in the ]
i overrun regions of South Korea
twill have prepared for the lib-j
erating armies considerably less
than a whole-hearted welcome.
So much for Korea.
India, Pakistan, and other Asi-1
atic nations which have recog-j
(nized Communist China are in
turn disturbed by the bitterly
! hostile American policy toward
I Communist China and by the in
tervention of its Seventh Fleet
athwart Formosa, India—while
supporting the United Nations in
Korea—has reluctantly voted
'against the Umted States on the
question of Peiping’s admission
to the Security Council. Rightly
or wrongly, the United States is
weakening its Korean case among
Asiatics by these policies.
Continued exclusion of the new ,
Chinese Government from the i
United Nations appears to many
Asian peoples, even those awake J
to communism, to be due to j
- stubborn unwillingness by the
r West, and particularly Washing-1
ton, to recognize a native and
broadly based revolution.
It is, of course, no secret that
the Soviet Union is making
every effort to set East against
West, to proclaim a policy of
Asia fpr the Asiatics (or at least
for the Eurasiatics), and to paint
the Korean war as an attempt of
the West to retain a military
base on the Asiatic mainland.
This was obvious in Soviet
cheif delegate Yakov A. Malik's
propaganda lunges before the UN
Security Council His tactics,
though at first apparently clumsy,
were diliberately intended to
provoke rulings against Com
munist China—rulings in which
India would vote with the Soviet
Union.
If this exploitation of Peiping’s
sensibilities succeeds well enough,
: perhaps Moscow can persuade
i Chinese troops to intervene in
I Korea—perhaps it already has so
persuaded Peiping -and perhaps
| Moscow will yet induce Chinese
jCommunist leader Mao Tze-tung
to carry through the invasion of
'Formosa which Russia’s own ac
tion in touching off the Korean i
war has made more difficult by j
bringing the American Seventh I
Fleet into the picture.
One cannot be sure what un
derstandings these two totalita
rian capitals may have reached
or failed to reach. The British !
Foreign Office has no means to
appraise reports that Moscow and
Peiping are out of step over For
mosa. But what is obvious from
all this is that the West needs oc
casionally to sit down and think
over whether its policies and its
ancient commitments in Asia are
winning new friends and influ
ence there, or alienating peoples
unnecessarily.
At the recent Geneva sessions of
the United Nations Economic and
Social Council, some misgivings j
j were expressed over the wisdom |
I of American policy toward the j
i world’s backward areas Particu
i larlv it was suggested that the 1
United States has failed to at
jtach to past dollar-aid programs
I those demands for political and
economical reform which would
1 make that aid really effective.
' This was true in China. It is
also true in South Korea, where
! apparently, according to on-the
spot reports, some peasants when
north invaded still being forced
to turn over as much as UO per
cent of their crops in payment
for land, rent, and taxes.
I There is a long, hard road back
| to the 3flth parallel in Korea.
It has been suggested in both
Britain and the United States that
when the invaders have been
thrown back, Korea should be
turned over to the United Nations,
which would be responsible not
only for its long-term economic
reconstruction but also for its
day-to-day administration until
free elections could be held.
This policy might apply to
I Formosa also.
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As of September 1, Tar Heel
farmers were expected to pro
duce an average yield of 3t> bush
els of corn per acre on their 1950
crop. This would be a new record.
The highest yield to date has been
35 bushels per acre, made in 1949
| Mary Beth Hushes and C harles Russell in a scene from “Inner Sanc
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Joseph Coiien And
Valli Are Starred
I
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Stranger” co-stars two of Holly
wood’s top personalities, Joseph
Cotton and Valli, now playing at
the Viccar Theatre.
A small Ohio town is the locale
for most of the action. Cotton, a
card sharp who has decided to
ir >ke one more big “killing” and
quit the racket, comes to the town
and quietly gets a job in the local
shoe factory. His coolness and in
difference attract the attention of
Valli, the beautiful daughter of
the factory owner.
Some months later Cotton and a
pal, Paul Stewart, meet in a dis
tant city and execute their prear
ranged hold-up of a wealthy gam
bier. They divide the loot and
Cotton returns to lus job, but the
trust that Valli and his elderly :
landlady have in him is disturb- I
ing. Moreover, he realizes he is I
falling in love with the factory !
owner’s daughter.
At tins point Stewart appears,
broke and frightened, for he sus
pects some of their victim's gun
men are trailing him. Gotten, his
security shattered, finds himself
at a crisis, and the way in which
he resolves the dilemma brings
on the climax of the picture.
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