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100-1620 Baltimore MA, LATTINONE: SENATOR FERGUSON: MA, LATTINORE: SENATOR FERGUSON: é Sor: “+ r "Y think, Senator, that you may be exaggerating the ques- tion of China in the United Nations and Chinese embagsics in the various countries as compared with China itself as a central power and organization, The Russians already havo all the obstructive power they need in the United Nations with the voto they havo; a double veto doosn't add to that, If they coopsrate tn the United Nations, they cooperate; if they don't, they don't, As for Chinoso om- bassies, it is up to the individual countries whether they recognize China or not," Netke But lot's look at our intorests prior to tho taking over of this vast territory by the Communists, **** Vo fought the Pacific war, and arc we going to say now that we will surrender all that we fought for? ****! "Senator, I think we ought to try to gct down to the basic realiticg of the sitantion, You speak of the Communists taking over China, i think that perhaps is too strong e way of putting it, From the Amorican point of view, what can Amorican policy do in the situation? The key to tho situation in China is not that tho Communists havo won but that tho National government has collapsed of its own cor- Tuption and its own incfficiency, That leaves us with nothing there to support, so we cannot talk of the intcrcsts we would have defended if there were something there for us to support, ‘Ye have to get to the realities of the situa tion end how we can doal with it," Hr, LATTIMORS, I can't agree with you on that. ‘/hen I think of what hoeppened between V-J Day and today, whon I think of our government scnding General MARSHALL as an emissary to China; what for? To try to consolidate the Nationalist government and the Communists. Now, he was following out an order, I am satisfied thit it was not his direct order; he was following it out, ‘We have learned— and we should have imovn this before Yolta—that you cannot, under any circumstances, ever put the Communists into any other governnent that they wouldn't take it ovor, Let's take Czechoslovakia, Let's look at this thing in the light of what has heppencd, Now, what did General MARSHALL do? Ho did this, He hnd them stop fighting. He gave cveriy preference to the Communists beceuse the Communists wore defented at the time that he wont there," —~ ha 7