Chinese UN Delegate Asks Invasion of Red Mainland

An American-backed invasion of the Chinese mainland by Nationalist Chinese troops would be the best solution to the problem of handling Communist China, United Nations Representative Tingfu F. Tsiang said last night at a U.N. Council forum on Red China.

Intelligence reports received By Nationalist headquarters indicate that under certain conditions "a large part" of Mao Tse Tung's Communist forces would side with the Nationalists in the event of such an all-out offensive against the Red regime, Tingfu declared.

The Communist government in China is basically unsound, he feels, because it is totally "un-Chinese" in character. For this reason, many citizens might welcome the return of the Nationalists.

Conditions under which Red soldiers would desert to the Nationalists include American backing of a large-scale invasion, and a promise that the Nationalists will preserve those land reforms no far instituted by Mao's government, Tingfu stated.

Get Tough in Korea

Speaking earlier in the forum, Colonel Lawrence Bunker, former Chief Aide de Campe of General MacArthur, called for a powerful drive to the Yalu River by American troops unless the Communists show signs of agreeing to peace terms in Korea. "We must get tough again," Bunker said. He feels that "Russia will then sell Red China down the river."

These peace negotiations with the Communists in Korea have no chance of success, said John K. Fairbank '29, professor of History. He pointed out that the Communists regard negotiations as mere maneuvers in "a permanent and total world struggle," and not as a means of attaining an end of hostilities. For this reason, he added, the admission of Red China to the U.N. in the near future would he impossible.

Fairbank also felt that there was a possibility of domestic unrest eventually up-netting the Communist regime, although his reasons for suspecting dissatisfaction were different from those presented by Tingfu.

Russian, Not Chinese

Basically, the present Communist Government in China is operating on principles which are Russian, and not Chinese, Tingfu explained. He went on to examine the probable reaction of the average Chinese citizen to Communist policies.

Totalitarianism in its present form is extraordinary to the Chinese, he said. Chinese tyrants have never tried to control the personal lives or the thoughts of their people, and have generally adopted a policy of "laissez-faire" in politics.

Chinese intellectuals are sure to react unfavorably to the type of thought-control instituted by the Communists, because it is in direct repudiation of China's past and culture. This is even more true, because "Intellectual life in China today must be not only Communist, but Russian," Tingfu charged.

Famine and Misery

"The peasants of China know that they have no freedom," he went on. They must sell their crops at prices set by the government, and support a great burden of taxation for public works. Although there is not sufficient food produced to feed the population, yet much is exported to feed Russian families in Siberia. "There has been, an there will be, famine on a large scale as long as the Communist regime lasts," he said.

"China needs reform," Tingfu concluded. "The problem lies in finding out those ways of reform which can be based on the best of China's own traditions and culture.