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...even though on second thought they well knew and had approved the answer. There was a discernible restiveness about the United Nations (would it "tie our hands"?), against Britain and France ("for trying to run out on us"). Three Cabots, a Coolidge and a Lowell joined in a group telegram to Truman and Acheson asking arbitration and concessions to the Communists. There were peeved cracks about MacArthur's misconstrued "home by Christmas" remarks-the familiar fate of a general in a jam and a public caught by surprise. There was outspoken criticism of the Administration. Said an Iowa filling...
Stalin himself, in a telegram sent through the Comintern in 1926, ordered the Chinese Communist Party to raise its own army (20,000 tested comrades to lead 50,000 armed peasants). At that time the Reds were still accepted in the Kuomintang (Nationalist) revolution, which Chiang Kai-shek had led up from the south to subjugate the warlords and unify the nation. A Red army had already been urged by Mao, then one of the Communist Party's lesser figures and often berated by his less realistic comrades as a starry-eyed opportunist dreaming of "romantic Soviet republics...
...Worker was quick to scream "freedom of the press," and it got quick support from solidly capitalistic and bitterly anti-Red sources. Said Scripps-Howard's World-Telegram & Sun: "We know how the newsdealers feel . . . However, there are authorities properly empowered to discipline traitors and silence their publications. It certainly is not for the newsdealers to set themselves up as censors." The New York Daily News agreed and added: "The Worker is one source from which Americans can learn plenty about their Communist enemies. We hope . . . that the ratty little hate-sheet will continue to be available...
...telegram said there was no choice but to "break out of the Kremlin trap designed to pin us down in Asia, leaving Europe and the Middle East Defenseless...
Free elections in Korea supervised by a neutral country; a hands off policy for Chinese affairs, including Formosa; foregoing German rearmament and stationing a 20 division Angle-American garrison in France and the low countries, supported by French forces of equal strength were other recommendations urged in the telegram...