Show www i A THIS wea WEEK EK ir in washington with clinton alwon davidson Dav ldson CHINA RUSSIA RIFT washington diplomatic and military circles circle recently have been buzzing with reports report of rising tension between communistic muni munt china and the soviet union the reports if U true could be the best cold war ne new ws in years differences between the two giant communist nations are said to be over whether to keep the cold war cold or make it hot communist china leaders leaden mao tse tee tung lung and chou en lal sire are said to believe that world war III against western nations is inevitable and to be desired by the communists they are reported impatient with premier policy ot of existence coexistence co the reports would appear to support warnings made repeatedly peat edly in recent years year by general albert C ret who probably knows china and the chinese leaders better than arty any other amerl ameri can military man lie ile has haa warned of the ruthless and aggressive intentions of the chinese leaders russia reluctant 17 S state department officials are convinced that khrushchev does not want a war with the west and that he would start a war only if he became convinced communists could not eventually destroy democracy by other means communist china is reported on the other hand to be pressuring khrushchev for dl di military action this diplomatic officials are careful to emphasize does not mean russia and china are about to end their military alliance the state department late lat last summer briefed tho the senate ate foreign relations commit teo tee on the russia nusIa 4 china situa tion at a closed door session mission later senator hubert humph rey a member of that committee gave the senate a report without mentioning the th source of his information it would be wishful think IL ing sen humphrey said laid no to conclude that the two communist giants are going to split any day nevertheless it it would also be foolish to it nore the fact that tensions ten lons do exist and that they seem sean to be increasing rather than diminishing two communist capital the ite communist bonu eunist empire lifted to have one cetiner centermost cow sen humphrey said now it clearly has two centers moscow and peking moscow cannot be happy that its former unquestioned direction of the communist movement has been challenged china has begun operating its own foreign prop propaganda agam and economic aid program in completion with the USSR china has made a dramatic propaganda bid in latin america and africa as well as asia the evidence at hand indicates red china would like to 0 make cuba to the U S what formosa is to communist china she would like ilka to make the island of cuba as embarrassing to us as possible both ina in a propaganda and a military sense sen humphrey said one diplomat with far hastern eastern experience who asked that he not be quoted directly summed up the chinese situation this way the communist chinese are rapidly anu antl foreign and anti antl western russia is foreign and western if mao and chou decide to conaler southeast asia by force against russian advice there is a fair chance russia would if not an active ally of the west at least stay out of a far eastern war |