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Supposing that we were eventually able by force to destroy the present power of the Chinese Communist regime, what would take its place? I doubt if anyone but Chiang Kai-shek believes that he could form a government to take over and administer again the four hundred millions of the Chinese sub-continent. The strength of the Chinese Communist regime, which is now being manifested against us, has not been built in a day but over a whole generation of activity in organizing the peasantry in the populous countryside...
...Government but also by the governments of the free world," said Fulbright. "Are we now prepared for the unlimited requirements of the third world war? . . . Are our allies ready? ... Is today or tomorrow the most favorable moment for the U.S. and its allies? . . . Shall we gain Chiang Kai-shek and lose Britain, France, Italy, the Low Countries, Scandinavia, Greece and Turkey...
...Change, Really. The Administration was finding its wrinkled-nose attitude toward Chiang Kai-shek increasingly awkward. The awkwardness was compounded last week when Major General Courtney Whitney told New York reporters that "all senior officers" in the Far Eastern command supported MacArthur on the use of Chiang's troops. There were still reservations in the Pentagon about the Nationalist army's effectiveness. The Army considered only 40,000 of the 400,000-man army were ready to fight, and then only under competent non-Chinese command. With U.S. training, the Army figured, the Nationalists might be ready...
Earl Kulp '51, representing the Young Republicans, urged a return to bi-partisan foreign policy as conceived by the late Senator Vandenberg. He agreed that aid to Aela is vital and urged that "Truman should talk to Stalin in he has to walk through Red Square in sackcloth." Kai-Shek and at least reconnaissance missions over Manchuria...
This view was upheld by Professor of Medieval History C. H. Taylor, while Donald C. Williams, professor of Philosophy, declared himself on favor of MacArthur's proposal to blockade China. All three speakers agreed against our using Chiang Kai-Shek's Formosan forces...