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...Peking regime, the United States can be more certain than ever that that government will endure. On the brighter side of the coin, however, the West should observe that the Chinese nationalism that moves Kuo to support Peking is quite different from the world communism on which the current Sino-Soviet alliance is based. Consequently there exists a good chance that at some point in the future the paths of Moscow and Peking will divege. One hopes that this event will not occur simply because there are no free nations left to be conquered...
...case of a resident who is considered to be hiding something or is "not frank enough," casual visitors will call on him, each using a different form of approach. These visitors, assigned by the police, may consist of Youth Corps League members, party members, unit chiefs, members of the Sino-Soviet Friendship Association, activists from peasants' or workers' organizations. This will go on until the man is cleared or arrested. Said a middle-aged housewife who came to Hong Kong a few months ago: "You people outside always pity us for our short rations, dirty rice and scanty...
...Occasion for the feast: New Year's celebration of the Chinese year 4654-the Year of the Monkey. It was also the 40th anniversary of Seattle's China Club, a remarkable example of the American penchant for voluntarily organizing for a high purpose-in this case for Sino-American friendship...
...where such violence was successfully halted. In 1916 the late Julean Arnold, a lifelong friend of China and onetime commercial attache in the U.S. embassy in Peking, visited Seattle and asked if there was any interest among the city's top citizens in forming an organization to promote Sino-American friendship. A group of 27 leaders from Seattle's professional and business communities responded to Arnold's challenge. The first president of the China Club was the venerable Thomas Burke, a former Chief Justice of the Washington Territory Supreme Court, who, as a private in the home...
Sequel. The President did not live to see Chiang Kai-shek's concurrence. But it was given, angrily yet inevitably. The Sino-Soviet treaties with all of Stalin's demands in Manchuria and Outer Mongolia were signed Aug. 14, 1945-the day Japan surrendered. In return for Chiang's concurrence, Stalin recognized Chinese sovereignty over Manchuria, promised Chiang military and economic...