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    "ocrText": "-2-\nChina Committee\n11-15-49\n\"dominated\" by what we call \"an imperialism\" (reference, letter\nof transmittal of White Paper and nearly all statements conderning\nChina). China finally makes this bi-lateral repartee by denouncing\nus as imperialists, and all our friends as the \"running dogs of\nimperiblish.\nThe Chinese attitude is improper, of course. But\nwith our training (and our relations with China of the Past) it\nwould be advisable for us to be more clever; i.c., less denuncia-\ntory, so te can establish better relations, and \"compets-out\" the\nRusians.\nSUNMATION OF POINTS:\n3.\nNATIONAL\nA. State Department should not be bulldozed or\nARCHIVES AND\nACORDE\nA\ndominated by Anti-Russian fever and should rise or fall on firm\nto\nERNICE\npolicy of international law.\nB. State should realize constant verbal attacks on\nRussia or attacks on China with oblique remaris about Russia do not\npromote peace nor gain a single ally or friend. It weakens our posi-\ntion.\nTo me it is easy to understand if you \"accuse\" one\nof being for \"that man, F. D. R.\" you make him hate you more, and\nlove Roosevelt more (as it does me). That is what we are doing to\nChina in our accusations of their being dominated by Russia.\nOur accusations fall flat on unsympathetic ground, do\nno good whatever. In making the charge we ignore our own continuous\nbacking of the corrupt Nationalist administration long after we knew\nit was morally wrong. We also ignore Chinese history of European and\nAmerican intervention since beginning with the Opium War in 1840.\nAbove all, we ignore human emotions which the Chinese\nmust have, like we have.\nAccording to International Law, nations should be recoge\nnized who are entitled to it. This is true even if friendly to Russia\nAND, besides, we could then find out what is going on in the world. It\nwould be better than to renain in embittered blindness, thus depriving\nourselves of world information.\nConsidering polities as global, we are really following\nin some parts of the world, the Pre-Perry Policy of Japan. We rofuse\noursolves information about various parts of the world (this benefits\nRussia). Otherwise, it only assuages our own prejudices, with timid\nbows to the Heart, SoCormick and other selfish poste\npones the time when we must make up our minds,"
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