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Show i WHO IS JOHN GALT? by Bill Morrison behind and undergo Communist rule). In 1958, Quemoy and Matsu were attacked once again. As stated in Red China Lobby, "this new assault was far more intense than the bombardment in 1954-a railroad had been built across the mountains of Fukien Province to expedite the transportation of what Peiping calls the "People's Liberation Army" and its logistical supplies. The Red Chinese Air Force was liberally supplied with Mig-17's based on newly surface airfields in Fukien Province. The Red Chinese Navy commanded squadrons of small, fast, armed vessels for the purpose pur-pose of harassing the supply line from Taiwan to the Islands. . . While Red China returned to the attack with superior weapons and better-balanced tactical resources, the Nationalists also were in better shape. So, the Red Chinese Air Force was driven from the air, the Red Chinese Navy was sunk or scattered and the People's Liberation Army stayed home." The Five Year Plans of Mao Tse Tung were gross economic failures and culminated in the "Cultural Revolution" which stunted China's aggressiveness through the latter part of the fifties to the middle sixties. Mao recalled all the Chinese ambassadors am-bassadors (except the one assigned to the UAR) as a purge for power within the Chicom Party took place. However, this was only a hiatus. Mao toppled Liu Shao-Chi and Teng Hsiao-Ping and his authority was once again supreme. (To be continued ) contend that to recognize Red ilM would be detrimental to jj, national interest, deleterious oour Asian commitments and agrantly immoral (immoral in he sense that Hitler's "furnaces" ,ere-and the Red Chinese oicmment has eliminated over , million people in order to onsolidate its regime). ;0 take the last contention first, morality as a guideline in cognition, one doesn't have to 3 back to Woodrow Wilson but :her to Thomas Jefferson and he policy directive he laid down , i order to justify the recognition i the revolutionary government i Fiance in 1972. Our first wetary of State observed, "It :toids with our principles to knowledge any government hich is formed by the will of the ation, substantially declared." 0 quote from the Red China obby, "There are two points to onsider in regard to the Jefferson escription. First of all, we can asonably substitute people for nation of the 18th century i.om. Secondly, Jefferson was early stipulating an "abstraction 1 slate.. .a moral principle" in quiring the consent of the jj ?ople as a requisite for I -cognition. Obviously, morality must be tempered with national interest, the first of the contentions, and since national interest and the second contention, Asian commitments, are mutually inclusive, they can be dealt with as one subject. The question, then, is whether recognition of Red China is in our national interest. It appears President Nixon thinks it might well be. Is China, therefore, a serious threat to world peace or has her past adherence to the orthodox Leninist line of "inevitable conflict" been moderated? In 1951, Red China was condemned con-demned by the United Nations for waging an aggressive war in Korea incidentally, 23's of all the Chinese prisoners of war held by the UN forces, despite all entreaties en-treaties and threats by Communist Com-munist China, decided to join the Nationalists on Taiwan the only "mainland election" held since Communist rule?) In 1953-54 there were Chinese incursions into Indochina. In 1954, the Red Chinese bombarded the offshore islands. In 1955, the Tachens Islands were invaded by the Red Chinese (which the U.S. Navy had previously evacuated out of a population of 14,500 civilians, 19 preferred to remain i Her when he expanded that W ion, Jefferson strengthened He disavowed any interest in means by which a new nation tamed (rather appropriate for L e spokesman of a nation ll; wived in rebellion) or the 'mof its institutions (suitable in of the American Republic's fc Wion of the monarchical VIP inciPle)- Yet he reaffirmed his (1 ved condition by con-Itk; con-Itk; g, the will of the nation is nj; e n'v thing to be regarded. ng its qualification to ok 'Wminist China, how can it he ly be urged that this regime is! Son the will of the people leite '"it has: eliminated some 63 Jl0n of its own people at a jpri "vative estimate; consigned )ta millions more to ,1 W labor detention; ruled with I Mocracy surpassing that of a :iv ,e,ra Stalin; and for the past rs denied its subjects free near ttons and a voice in govern- ',eVer' moralitV as a criterion "V ;ecenition shouldn't be - cVh,e Christian Century ; - '.15' 195. stated that "if v tl I n meant approval, lli" 'SuPLbablY no country in M, "Ww United States would fi in'Ze ept itself." |