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PEARL BUCK, famous author of “The Good Earth,” “Peonie” and on China, addresses Friends of the Libjary at a meeting marking the 60th of the Hempstead Public Library in Hempstead High School last i ) Reds Seek Firm Grip ‘ Hempstead—China will undoubtedly retain a communist aa many other novels anniveryy “: are government if present officials are clever enough to adopt a modibed form of Red rule, Pearl Buck. noted novelist on tife in China, said last night. Commualiam will survive in the mation as long aa the govern- ment has something to offer the people in the way of economic security, Miss Buck stated. Since they received nothing from the Natlonalists, they will be satisfied with very little and, she added, western countries will probably have to learn to live with a Com- munist China. Speaking at a meeting of the Friends of the Hempstead Library in the. High School auditorium, Miss Buck declared that the Chinese will not accept the strict party lines of Soviet Russia be- cause the Oriental people are not characteristically revolutionary, The collapse of the Nationalist government was inevitable when, Miss Buck said. “as always in China's history, the price of rice went beyond the reach of the average man.” The downfall of the former regime was caused chiefly by the weaknesses of Chiang Kar-ahek as a ruler, Miss Buck stated. Militariam was evident in alt phases of the government. In ad- dition, she sald, he “tried ta im- pose democracy from above in- stead of letting it grow from the villages, and people lost) cun+ fidence in his government be- cause of the corrupt officials around him.” Chiang was not & corrupt man himself. 4 said; he was a Mistaken man The speaker was intr Mra. Lilhan © Van Mat rian, during the meting which marked the 60th anpnyersary af the tdnd De s