"Cultural Aggression"

The Bamboo Curtain fell harshly last week on a century of American good works in China. Red China's Vice Chairman of the State Administration Council Kuo Mojo charged: ". . . American imperialism has, over a long period, placed special emphasis on ... cultural aggression in China."

Kuo recommended, and the Peking regime approved: 1) a ban on U.S. subsidies for China schools and churches, 2) a takeover by the Red state or by puppet "people's" enterprises of all U.S.-subsidized educational, medical and relief institutions, 3) a transfer of U.S.-subsidized "religious bodies" to the control of "Chinese believers [whom] the government should encourage to become independent, self-sufficient and self-preaching [sic']."

Kuo reckoned that the properties involved had been worth $41,900,000. Among the chief "cultural aggressors": the twelve Protestant "Christian Colleges," run by the United Board for Christian Colleges in China; the Peiping Union Medical College and Changsha's "Yale in China," which were beacon lights of modern medicine in China; and the Catholic schools and mission churches that have served 3,500,000 Chinese Catholics. U.S. religious bodies had supported and operated 504 hospitals, 905 dispensaries, 31 leprosariums, 40 nursing schools, 320 orphanages. Their mission schools had trained scores of thousands of Chinese, including many officials of the present Communist government.

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