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A survey conducted by Lossing Buck, with the aid of
funds appropriated by the Nationalist Government of
China and the Rockefeller Foundation, of the condition
of the Chinese farmer and the utilization of cultivated
land in China, published in 1937, indicates that the
poverty of the people and the Low standard of living
is due largely to certain causes which can, to a large
extent, be remedied right in China. As the population
increasés, this problen increases in urgency and com-
plication. Control of pests, animal diseases, better
seeds, more and better fertilizers, better marketing
facilities for the farners' products, et cetera, are
reforms that, it is said, will go a long way towards
reising the standard of living by increasing the Chinese
food supply by fifty per cent. These reforms can be
undertaken without adding an acre to the land under
cultivation; without unnecessarily disturbing the life
of the people by shifts in population; and without dew
pendence on outside trade.
Internal developments extending to recon-
ditioning of the railways, roads and river transport,
restoration of factories, power plants, and river con-
servation, et cetera, will be dependent largely upon
outside trade and financial relations for the necessary
machinery supplies and working capital. Influx of
capital will be dependent on establishment of internal
peace and stability and protection of investments in
addition to a willingness to have it come in.
BECORDS.
8 (10) e Can it be anticipated that the United States
Cs
and
would be able to influence Chinese government policies
through economic and financial measures?
I think that the answer to this question is
"No" based on previous experience. Chinese government
policies tend to nationalization of industry and secondary
production facilities which are beyond the capacity of
private Chinese enterprise. We are opposed to such a
tendency in domestic and international business, believ=
ing in free enterprise and competition or have been.
Nationalization distributes the risk which today a few
capitalists are in no position to take unaided.
9 (11) o Can it be anticipated that "Titoism" will
develop in Communist China?
If the word "nationalism" is substituted
for this new puzzle-word "Titoism", the answer to the
question
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