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question is "Yes". The word "nationalism" makes the
question realistic. The growing trend towards national-
ism vill compel Mao Tze-Tung or any other Chinese
political leader to pursue national policies independent
of outside control. "Titoism" is a highly argumentative
word and it is too closely connected with pan Slavism,
Soviet Russia, Stalinism, and conditions in Eastern
Europe. It is not applicable to the situation in China.
10 (12). Under the most favorable circumstances
for those in control of China, how significant a mili-
tary potential would that country develop in the next
five years? The next ten years? The next twenty years?
It will take fifty years for the Chinese
to attain sufficient peace and order and food surplus to
develop a military potential of her own of any significant
import or effectiveness at all. At no time during the
recent war was China's arny able to push back enerry
forces or invade enemy country. By that time, Chinese
Communism, if it persists so long, will be as different
from the Communism that Mao Tze-Tung talks about, as
present day Stalinist Communism differs from the Commun-
ism of Lenin, Trotsky and Karl Narx. Already Soviet
leaders such as Vishinsky in "The Law of the Soviet
State" are busy explaining why government has not
"withered away" in the "Socialist homeland"
20 the
NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES
11 (20) If the Communists consolidate their con-
trol over China, should it be assumed that they will
continue their push into neighboring countries in South-
east Asia, that is, Indo-China, Siam, Malaya, the
Philippines, Burma, India, Indonesia?
As I say below, Chinese living overseas
may be expected to take on the political coloring of
their homefolk for the security which the group gives
the individual. They have generally been the under-
privileged minorities in the countries where they dwell,
because of the inability of their homeland to protect
them and give then prestige in their foreign surround-
ings. Any one who watched the phenomenon of the Chinese
communities in Siam, lialaya, and Java becone hardened
centers of Kuomintang nationalism for purposes of self
protection
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