QUAKER ANSWER TO CHINESE PUZZLE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000100750009-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 4, 2014
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: May 24, 1965
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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uaker Answer to Chinese Puzzle
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1 WASHINGTON ? Noth- 'gins? and its justification in the
i'.ing ? is' harder, in the Midst of. 'threat of Chinese aggression,
4?4N War, than to look beyond the Quakers ask whether we?
IN ?
'title immediate struggle to the 'have nothing better .to expect
i.;Problerns and hopes ? of the ' than another.. generation of
'long future. yet precisely thi,'.armed antagonism . and ? mili-
t look ? into the ,future has been' tary struggle. . .?
t: attempted as a bravet, act o( ; The policy of ranging China
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1.public service by.. the Amen- and the United States as mu-
lean Friends' Service commit- , tual enemies,' disputing ? the po-
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'tee (the Quakers) in: its pro- ,ysitions of the paramount pow-.
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posa Is for a '? n e w policy.. :er in Asia, merely exposes the
toward China. . .? . j ? ? - cluster: of small states , in
ll' ' ,
,2 Quite plainly there can. be , Southeast Asia to the tensions
'Ott,' immediate change 'in Our and ?? upheavals ? of 'a ? cruel
0 policy while China disturb , , struggle ..for ,poWer. between
'the secbritv ' of . Asia. The- , two. armed giants. .
li
!..Q.Itakers, with all their faith in ? : TO BREAK. this . fatal dead-,
i:itic persuasive power'of good :lock in which' our policy has
t.w ill. are' no/ blind to political., so' long been imprisoned, the
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; realities. ? - , ..Quakers propose that we be-
., ? Theiranalysis c o n t a i is ./gin the long 'journey to the
. , , .
"??-'some of the shrewdest corn- ',restoration of normal -rela-
? . ????inents' on Chinese problems : titans, with' China, ,in all areas
;that have yet been presented ? from the diplomatic to . thc.
'for public consideration. Even. cultural.
??? (among officials who dis'sent '? ., ., ,ut t , -
: 'But concede that the
yfi?ont their assumptions and ?
stumblit,g block .is' Formosa.
'this ? renort by ? the.'
. . - ? With their horror of brutality '
iQuakers has won a ? most ? re-
and persecution, the Quakers
' ? 1??spectful hearing.
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At their.. ar.
? the last ,people to, tolerate
t the ver center of
the transfer -of the people on
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'analysis the Quakers have put ; :Formosa , to the savage repri-
(two troubling questions. Are sals of 'Peking. A' definite and't
fwe .satisfied with our present:. binding 'agreement to protect'
policy?. Do :we wish to con: 'the safety and freedom of the
,tintie it indefinitely? No ? fur- -Formosans 'must 'therefore be.
otter discussion is needed by', the first essential principle to.
those who are satisfied with ? -.any Chinese Settlement.
I things as they are. , But for , ? Perhaps such a settlement ?
ft,
others these .matters are -y:'ill . no longer appear remote
I,by no - m e a n s, completely and utopian if Peking is rec,
cloNed issues and they would ? ognized as the 'government of.
I'vci-c?1".c further discussion. it.; one united China; if Formostk
,is to them that the Quaker ? is granted a large measure of
appeal'is addressed.
. ? local autonomy and protected:
'I' he Quakers ask us to in its htitiin freedom; if the
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tiweigh the gains and penalties - American 7th' Fleet .is w i t h-
t .II our policy of non-recog- , drawn from' those..Waters.? and
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?itition. of a trade einbarco. of ? if Peking becomes a member'
i??? mutual hostility.' and of antic(' ,? of the .Uniled. Nations and no
?,re.sistancc.?? .Without : denying ? longer suffers any discrimina-
1 Clot such a oolicv had its . on- _ tinn' lin the ? wnild ...1 iiiiiii mitt..
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This clearly is a most for- ?
?-midable list of , speculative ..
possibilities and any approach '
to China on these principles is ?
not practical for the United
.States in the visible. future: All
the same, .if we tale 'the easy,'
course of seeking' refhe in
. bleak negations palatable to us
if only because of their long
familiarity, then we do o in ?
,ourselves to an endless entan-'
glement with the China prob-?
, lent in -its present dangerous.'
form. , .
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H E- EM11.12GENCE o( .
China as a nuclear power, still
'with a small and' primitiVe??
:capacity; but one capable of
ruthless, expansion in, he
decade, gives a :tragic and ur-
gent emphasis to the ncces-
sity 'of no longer , treating ?
China as an outlaw state.
? Perhaps China will obsti-.,
nately resist, all. overtures but ,??
can anyone really 'argue that
we have tried and e0austed...
all available' policies? We have',,.
; ?
been no more eager to reach
:an ?accommodatidn ? Wit h';
China, in a .'significant , and
fundamental sense, than -we
were to come to ? terms for
many
many years. with Rits.sia after
its revolution. Our- hostility
'did not break Russia's Oower,
then, and it has not yet broken
' China's power now.. , ?
: The Quakers' see a ? useful
,check.on potential Chinese
:aggression in the presence ,of
'an international .force in the'
threatened lands, with the
United Nations taking ? an in
creased role in 'Southeast Asin
,. 'Beyond all doubt the,
'Quakers, are' far ahead . of,
general 'American opinio
,but there would be much sup.1
port for their position in Asia,.
notably .in Japan and' Jndia
They have, meanwhile, given,
?us all 'a valuable :lesson in the,:
art of discussing public -tines-,
lions without 'Self-righteousness'
ndwith ..brave : freedomi
;from
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