Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 December 1948 — Page 3

Might Save Nanking, ‘Chinese Sources Say

.- Experts Contend U. S. Is So Confused Over

Issues, Quick Action Is Impossible

By CLYDE FARNSWORTH, Scripps-floward Staff Writer uficertaintiés of China's disastrous tuation are multiplying so fast that anything can happen—except swift delivery of all this nation from control by the Communists. one of the present “ifs” aliow for that, even the one that -But_ assertion of official support\for the Nationalist government might save Nanking.

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Swift American SupporfProtestants

“if the United States.”

However, no realistic Chinese pects spoken Ch se believe the U. 8. government 1 so confused and divided on the fsgue it is incapable of acting ewiftly) They don't rule“out the possibility of some dynakic move toward protection of superficial interests in China. \

Editors Hit U. 8S. Po Reacting to what "the sider evasive argument, the-point criticism and recrimina~ tion relayéd to China out of American debate on the question of helping China, Chinese editors

are starting to respond sharply.

For example, China’s largest newspaper, Sin Wen Pao, leaped on a quoted statement by Rep. Sol Bloom (D. N. Y.), that he favored.immediate aid that would ot involve the United States in War. “If the United States is afraid of war, why should she proclaim her opposition te communism at all?” The newspaper demanded.

“It would have been ‘better for

her to signify her surrender and submission to communism.” It may be a long time before this kind of quarrel breaks among Chinese officials, but even they are dismayed at the ~ sonal sniping to which Mm Chiang Kai-shek has been sub-| jected on her Washington trip. Seek to Correct Failures Biit thé Chinése are rankling under easy American’ assumptions that their government: is too corrupt and inefficient “to fight communism, that it is incapable of and disinterested in reform and social progress and

-that it is essentially powerless to

support itself. Strictly speaking, one of these assumptions is ‘true. On the

other hand, the government itself has acknowledged and tried to rectify certain lapses and failures in constitutional and even

army reforms adopted on Ameri-

can urging. It is obvious to Americans in China that this government

could not be as bad as its severest critics have painted it or it would have failed long ago. Whatever the government's shortcomings, its present grave situation is traceable in greatest measure to the strategic choice it made in attempting to reclaim fanchuria in face of Russia's yr intent, documented at Yddta, to take over that territory. Other Causes Cited There are other contributing causes, too, apart from Nationalist inadequacy and poor strategic choices—such as impair-

ment of the Nationalist power]

and position during the year in which Secretary of State George

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Council of ‘Bishops. Deny Infiltration

By EMMA RIVERS MILNER

Methodist Church of which Rich-

a Nationalist coalition with the

Many - thinking Chinese and some Americans over here ‘believé the issue has been clouded| by - talk ._ about reforms, by whispers about reorganization of Chinese leadership and finally by the judgment that China is not of vital strategic interest to the United States.

mans Defy jet Police

Threaten Strike |

(UP) — A n workers defied Soviet police\ authority and shouted down Communist labor

in the- wake of an-overwhelming

statement denying that communism has infiltrated the Protestant churches of America. The statement was in reply to accusations regarding the churches and religious organizations made in a report by the House on Un-American Activities. The report is titled: “One Hundred Things You Ought to Know About Communism and Religion.” The Council of Bishops drafted the report Dec. 2 at a meeting in Cincinnati at which ~ Bishop Raines was present. It was releaséd today by Bishop James C: Baker of Los Angeles, council president, through the office of the council's secretary, - Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam of New York. Discussing Beport “The intent of the report is to|

At Power Plant {inform churchmen what will hap-

pen to them and their families if Communism ever takes over the United States,” says the council. “The apparent effect of the report is to create the impression that the churches have been infiltrated

leaders in the fan over today

anti-Communist vote in the Western sector elections.

Apparently heartened b, result of the elections yesterday, the workers went ahead w plans to strike at the Bewag elec \trical combine in protest gama Soviet methods. ‘The final official count for tne 1572, precincts showed a total of 86.2 per cent of the 1,586,090 voters cast ballots. Six non-Communist- workers representatives, barred early to-: day from the Russian sector municipal power administration building by a “newly appointed Communist director, returned to the building and forced their way inside at noon. . The - workers were protesting the arrest of six officials of the non-Communist trade union UGO and the posting of police guards in the plant. They threatened: to strike if the men were not released and the guards withdrawn. Guards barred the six again, but a score of sympathetic workers pushed the guards aside and permitted the six to enter. A spokesman for the Bewag administrative workers said the company administration probably would move to one of the western sectors, leaving the Russians to set up a separate administration of their own. “We will show the Russians we don’t want to work under their bayonets,” “%aid -the spokesman, Gerhard Aussner, a member of the Bewag board of directors. Returns from 1415 of 1572 precincts showed the Social Democrat Party, which favors evolu-| tionary socialism by ballot, won

the flow. the party. line.

an overwhelming majority of 63.8]

by Communists and that respons'ible leaders of the churches fol-

‘The news. stories, editorials] and commentator broadcasts [have centered upon those sections f the report that by jinuendo ¢ to discredit such noble Chrisorganizations as the Young Mens» Christian Associatiori and the Y g Womens Christian As-

the-nation.is named by the cleveh, dévice of asking, propagandists ever actually get before church groups as speakers?’ The answer is given, ‘Yes. For example, the| head of the Communis¢ Party, on one occasion at least, “gpoke at Union Theological Semihary in New York City.’ “The incompetency of th vestigators is revealed in the erence to “the Epworth League which has not been in existence during the last nine years. Epworth League was one of the youth organizations of the former

the former’ Methodist Episeopal Church, South. New Group Formed’ “When the reunion of the Methodist churches occurred in 1939, the youth organizations of the uniting churches were discontinued and a new organization known as The Methodist Youth Fellowship was established. “But the report of the Un American Activities Committee] affirms the Communists have dug into the Edworth League and are ‘at it today.” “We do not here comment upon

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WEST BRANCH, Mich., Des? g [(UPYy==Willlam Lee -Farley,..1 will be arraigned today for Fi his mother because she refused to finance his Christmas ecard sales program, State police said ‘the boy coms fessed shooting his mother, Mrs. Luey-Grogg, 42, after an all-day jargument over his plan to sell [Christmas cards. William was picked up as he tried to hitchhike away from home,

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