THE CASE AGAINST RED CHINA

Mailed from Washington last week to individuals and organizations all over the U.S. were thousands of mimeographed requests for signatures on a petition addressed to the President of the U.S. The petition's seven sponsors made an impressive list of American leaders from both parties: ex-President Herbert Hoover, ex-Ambassador (to Japan) Joseph C. Grew, ex-Governor (NJ.) Charles Edison, Republican Senator (N.J.) H. Alexander Smith, Democratic Senator (Ala.) John Sparkman, Republican Representative (Minn.) Walter H. Judd, Democratic Representative (Mass.) John W. McCormack. The petition:

Dear Mr. President:

We hereby express our opposition to the admission of the so-called Chinese People's Republic to the United Nations for the following reasons:

1) This admission would destroy the purposes, betray the letter, and violate the spirit of the law of the United Nations, whose charter dedicates the organization to insure peace by promoting freedom and respect of human rights, and subordinates the admission of new states to the organization to their ability and willingness, in the judgment of the member nations, to carry out the obligations to the charter as defined above. The so-called Chinese People's Republic is constitutionally unable to do so since it officially declares itself to be a "dictatorship" based on "democratic centralism" (Articles I and II of the Organic Law of the Central Government of the Chinese People's Republic). This is the basic principle of Communist totalitarianism and excludes freedom of discussion or criticism of government, that is, it excludes freedom and democracy altogether.

2) Even if the so-called Chinese People's Republic were eligible for admission under the charter, the fact still remains that the duly constituted government of China exists and functions not only as the rightful government of China but as a charter member of the United Nations. In order to give membership to the usurpers, the legitimate government of China would have to be expelled. Such action would be an unthinkable outrage against human decency and international justice.

3) The so-called Chinese People's Republic has shown its unwillingness to carry out the obligations of the charter by systematically disregarding every human right and violating every freedom.

4) By aiding in aggression upon South Korea and making war on the United Nations, it has proved itself an aggressor state.

5) Its admission would destroy the prestige and the position of the United States and of the free world in Asia. The countries of that continent which still resist Communist aggression or infiltration would be discouraged by the cynical surrender of the free world to expediency and appeasement and the betrayal of the ideals of the United Nations. The Asian nations, in turn, would then make fatal compromises with the Communist bloc.

6) The so-called Chinese People's Republic violated the most elemental laws of war in mistreating, torturing, and murdering United Nations soldiers who were prisoners of war, in an unlawful war which they waged against the very organization in which their supporters now claim membership for them.

7) At a time when Communist dictatorship seems to be badly shaken inside the U.S.S.R. and in its satellite empire, the admission of the so-called Chinese People's Republic to the United Nations would restore the prestige and authority of the Soviet government. It would help to destroy the hope of the enslaved peoples for ultimate freedom. This hope is one of the chief deterrents which has restrained the Kremlin from risking a worldwide conflict.

8) The admission of the so-called Chinese People's Republic to the United Nations would encourage subversive totalitarian movements in the free nations of the world in the expectation that their success would be sanctioned by the Free Nations which still survive. Thus the danger of a new war would be vastly increased by the rewards offered to aggressors.

Therefore, the undersigned Americans respectfully request the President of the United States to defend the freedom and the decency of the free world by continuing to firmly oppose the admission of the present so-called Chinese People's Republic to the United Nations. They express the wish that their petition be communicated to the United Nations and the hope that their appeal for peace and freedom will be heard and supported by all freedom-loving peoples over the world.

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