NATIONAL REVIEW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300440024-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: November 8, 1966
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

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cca:.a 2:c: the Institute for Pacific Relations was
right aster all: those Chinese Communists are nothing
but agrarian reformers. That is what we gather from the
report just-issued by "a panel of prominent citizens" who
-no doubt encouraged by the reformist zeal shown lately
by the Red Guards (or "Boy Scouts," as we would call
them)-can't wait to welcome Peking into the United
o be in is with the "Two
seve:-al who have some anti-Communist, including anti-
ChiCom, credentials: Franklin Lindsay _for example (ex-
CIA, presentl Pres of Itek (corp.), Prof. George E.
Taylor- (director o f the University of Washington's Far
Eastern Institute), Prof. Marshall Shulman (author of
,in ex client book on Stalin's foreign policy).
V,.'hat's up? The timing, on first thought, is odd: at
just the moment when Communist China a) is giving
all-out support to the other side in a war we happen to
be fighting; b) has antagonized a lot of African states
by brazen subversions; c) has revealed both the barbarism
the regime and its internal division by the grotesque
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Red. Guard romp; and when d) Secretary Rusk has given
the word that the U.S. will oppose the Two Chinas device
and any other weakening on Peking-recognition. All this,
however, is just what explains the timing, as John W.
inney, who was given the story for leakage in-the Oct.
21 New York Times, rather naively reveals: "The study
is reported to have been undertaken . . . with the en-
couragement of those factions within the Administration
that have been advocating a modification of the sixteen-
year-old policy opposing the admission of Communist China .
to the UN."
The indirect manipulations of the old China-appeasers,
in and out of government, with their hard core in the
'It was launched earlier than planned for the very reason -
that the swing in world and UN opinion has this year
been against UN acceptance of Peking. The Assembly
vote against admission would almost certainly have been
larger than last year, with the shift of at least a number
of the African dele(,ations. The aim of the China-ap-
peasers is to discourage this swing against Peking by
\atons. Ilcy lgurc t1c way t b sllgestin that Washington is about ready to capitulate.
C 1 as" prescription; get that down us as a preliminary g g y
doge. a.;o 1ve aren't so likely to retch while swallowing One may incidentally note that it is Secretary Rusk,
the rc,: opponent of weakening, who is the real target of this
the IRS about its tax exemption. it was paid for out or a
$450,000 kitty anted up by-let's check this: yes, by
the Ford Foundation l Among the 27 promincnts of which
;gust be strictly non-political because it has no trouble with
Your breath) by the United Nations Association-w :c.
it was composed, we do note a few who won their China
observe that, a) these are all among the biggest wheels
of the 12.". a: d ,ti..` crowd, and b) they are the cleanest,
dowmcnt for international Peace), Prof. A. Doak Barnett
(East Asian Institute, Columbia) ; and several. UNophiliacs
-- Ernest Gross (ex-Amb. to the UN, more recently bar-
rister for Liberia and Ethiopia in re South West Africa),
Anna Lord Strauss (ex-Pres., League of Women Voters),
and the inevitable Arthur (Rule-of-Law) Larson. Buz.
spurs in the DR-Arthur Dean (whose base is Sullivan
& Cromwell), Joseph E. Johnson (Pres., Carnegie En-
fciiow?tr:;v~:ing-wise. This is not like the old days; there
is no Owcn Lattimore ?or Edgar Snow or even John K.
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