HYSTERIA AGAINST CHINA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00297R000601240018-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 8, 2013
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: November 25, 1954
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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.President?Joseph Dermer; Secretary-Treesurer?Ci!arles J. liendley
HYSTERIA AGAINST C:INA
? THE S7.7,NATOR: from Formosa, ? William F.-. Know
.?ys he will continue? his, crusade for a Policy ,.that--
can be termed nothing. else..but a demand- for preventive
war China -and- the Soviet .Union. ?
This.. comes it a .time when the2:Administration in
,Washington is trym o whip Up 'hysteria: against :the. Chi-
. nese for the arrest- of Central Intelligence- Agency (CIA).
, , ?
ersonnel in ?China. . ?
A dispatch to the New York -Times *.yesterday reportetl:' ?
, that Knowland :'Will, press ?even,??mbre;: for . "a'''far-?,.harder,
line than. the Administration is 't :.),king According- to this.
,..report Knowland wants the U.S. to .serve notice That. any.
"subversion" 7 "Conithubists'in where in the ?.:?World
."might bring an American counter-attack." .
Now let's just. think through those words. SubVeision.:.
,
is ?the-word that has been used to describe the revolution
in China and IndOcbina, the struggles of colonial peoples
for laud and the determination of socialist-mihded
work-
'ers in Italy, for example, .to win an electoral Majority..
That .being ,"subversion," a "counter attack"
'_? atomic, and hydrogen bombs mean 'preventive 'war.,
mails'. bringing down, on _American; cities ft kain of
pestil-
,ence and death that threatens the very existence. Of our
-civilization: ? That's' the Knowland-..- ...McCarthy' folreign
-policy.
the, Outc6-.' against the
chi-
( nese concerning ?the operations .of CIA in the Far. East?.
I ? 1 ? A. Sober_wal.' ?ning 'about the Provocative. actiVities of
CIA has been sOunded. by :the ,Organ of railroad "VoKke.rs,
1.7Labor.". This' paper notes the ,recent; series of, articles
'about:" CIA .'which appeared :in the' Saturday EVenin
Post. .That :series. boasted, how CIA-agents were behin
, ..the overthrow of the Egyptian, Iranian and Guatemala:11y
tgovernments. And "Labor.' asks: ? .
"What is the 'effect On the people of these countries
if they learn' American agents are behind such sabotage?"
? That same Saturday Evening Post series .boasted
?.
'about -CIA-operations in blowing up bridges and.actually
...organizing 'sabotage, and other acts of violence .both .in
iEurope and in the Far East, It.boasted'how the agents
:of CIA penetrated to all the socialist Countries.
- Saturday Evening Post :aid in adv,ance what the Chi-.
nese goverr,-,-,It is now charging against persons, both
\\10111 toey charge are agents
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,.. THE PROVOCATIONS of the..CTA f.iiid the demand.
iof -Senator Knowland for war now are horses from ,the
I., -
..vsame stable: , - . - .. . . . .. .
;:c... ? A policy'. of.coexistenee must of necessity be a policy .
. ''for peaceful coexistence. That means an end of interfer- -
- '.ence in foreign lands. -.It means mutual agreements on -' ?
" t.:.uch non-interference and for real friendshi,l, trade and:-
cooperation to take the place of inciting v.. . . .
Rejection' of NIcCarthvism in foreign polley',i an
Urgent American need. We need a.foreign policy which I
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/11/08 : CIA-RDP74-00297R000601240018-3