YOUTH DEPARTMENT OF CHINESE MOSLEM ASSOCIATION.

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-02771R000500570010-1
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: August 25, 1952
• Content Type: DISP

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Mr. HSIEH Sung-toaoalfei' 109 Deputy Chief of the Youth
Department of the China Moslem Allsiociationo Assistant Secretary-
General of the Association and one of the Associations 31 Directors,
told the reporting officer on August 19 that the purpose of the
Youth Department was to mobilize Moslem youth on Formosa in support
of President CHIANG Hai-sheksa March 29 call to unify young Chinese
against communism and to arouse young Moslems in continental China
and throughout the Islamic world to the Menace of international
communism, In another sense, he explained, the establishment of
the Youth Department is a revival of the youth activities formerly
carried on in China by the Association .- not a new development.
The term "youth" seems somewhat liberally construed as Mr.
Hsieh said that the more than 10000 persons who have so far regi
tared as members of the Youth Department ranged in age from 15 to
50 years and the average age was 30. The Department has chosen to
define "youth" as essentially a state of mind and Go allow anyone
to join who considers himself as one of the young iu spirit, he
remarked.
Fuller information on the Department in given in the
enclosed memorandum, The Youth Department of the Chinese Moslem
Association"9 prepared by Mr, Richard LC, a Chinese member or
the Embassy staff.
Mr, Hsieh declared that the China Moslem Association was .
striving to make clear to Moslems everywhere how the Communists
oppressed their co-religionists in China, The Moslem amide* of
Northwest C1iina9 together with certain new elements 9 he said had
been formed by the Communists into 10 divisions (which he estimated
to total about 1009000 men), In general9 he remarked that it was
difficult to keep informed on conditions in Red China but that news
filtered out through Hang Kong, Pakistan and elsewhere.
The China Moslem Association tries to keep in touch with simi-
lar Islamic organizations in the Middle East, chiefly through
correspondence (notab1y9 between General RAI Chung-halo head of
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the Associations and his counterparts abroad). Mullah Ayatullah
KASHANIs leader of the Iranian Moslems, is one of the persons
General Pal exchanges letters with.
Mr. Hsieh stated that in March 1952 a world conference of
Moslems had been held at Karaclii and that 53 nations had been
represented there. The deleLxtte for the China Apslem Association
and the personal representative of General Pal was Mr. WANG Tseng-
shan (3E ) a former Commissioner of Sinkiang Province.
Mr. Wang is presently teaching the Chinese classics in the "Palace
of the Pakistan Governor" at Karachi and is well situated to
obtain news about Moslems in SinUiang and China's Northwest,
According to Mr. Hsiehs the Moslems of Iran were not repre-
sented in the March conference at Karachi. His explanation for
this fact was that the conference was "British-backed" and there-
fore the Iranian Moslems being so near to Russia and strongly
anti-British in feeling, did not wish to participate. Asked how
the conference could be "British-backed" in view of the general
hostility towards Britain on the part of most Tioslemss Mr. Hsieh
replied only that while the Moslems were greatly opposed to
"British imperialism" they also recognized that Britain was a
prominent member of the Free World and hence British and Moslems
had common interests.
Enclosure:
Howard P. Jones
Charge dcAffaire a.i.
Memorandums "The 'Youth Department
of the Chinese loslem Association".
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