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rene cee ee tm ae cp nme ae or egret PD eee i eee rare ee Me ree a gn i Et true spokesman for China and that it is the policy of the United States to return Chiang Kai-shek to the Chinese Mainland. President Eisenhower must take the major blame for our completely unrealistic attitude towards Red China. You recall that in his first State of the Union message on February 2, 1953, President Eisenhower told the world that he “had unleashed Chiang Kai-shek.” He also charged former Presi- dent Truman with “using the United States Navy as a defensive arm for Communist China.” These are the exact words of the President: “There is no longer any logic or sense in a condition that required the United States Navy to assume defensive responsi- bilities on behalf of the Chinese Communists. This permitted those Communists, with greater impunity, to kill our soldiers, and those of our United Nations allies, in Korea. “J am, therefore, issuing instructions that the 7th Fleet no longer be employed to shield Communist China.” I believe that our government should give immediate and serious consideration to proposals by the “CONLON COM- MISSION” that made studies on the United States Foreign Policy for the Committee on Foreign Relations of the United States Senate. This Commission concluded, “ A government having effective contro] over only 10 million people cannot indefinitely hold a ‘major power’ position in the name of 600 million Chinese.” They further said that, “Isolation in relation to our policy with China always serves totalitarianism.” One of the alternatives they proposed to the Chinese ques- tion was to take steps to establish normal relations with China that would include: 1) The recognition of Communist China by the United States, 2) support for its seating in the United Nations, and 3) general treatment equal to that which the United States accords to the Soviet Union. The Commission supports this policy on the following grounds. “a) Im accordance with established international practices to which U. S. policy has usually adhered, the recognition of Com- munist China would not signify approval of the regime, but rather its existence as a de facto government, having control over some 660 million people. To accept these facts of life is in the national interests of the United States because it is essential that we establish a realistic policy toward Asia as the first step in a long range economic and politcal competition with Communism. Nonrecognition has not prevented the rise of Communist China. It has isolated us as much as the Communists, giving our policy 15