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CHINA GOES COMMUNIST
Russia, as early as 1920, was conspiring against China. Shortly after the Bolshevik revolution
ended in 1918, the Communists announced: “We are marching to free ... the people of China.” In
1921, a Russian agent was sent to Peking, then to Shanghai, to make plans for the First Congress
of the Chinese Communist Party, which would become the world’s largest. They began to
infiltrate the government in 1922, and by 1924, the Chinese armed forces were reorganized along
the same lines as the Soviet army. Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975) was the Commandant, and
Chou En-lai was in charge of Political Affairs.
With the use of Soviet troops commanded by Gen. Michael Borodin, Chiang attacked
Shanghai, robbing the Rothschild-affiliated Soong Bank. President Coolidge refused to send U.S.
troops against the Chinese forces, and T.V. Soong negotiated with Chiang, offering him $3
million, his sister May-ling as a wife (even though Chiang had a wife and family), and the
presidency of China for life, if he would change sides. He agreed, and began to rule China as a
British ally. In December, 1927, he married the sister of Soong. Seeing the Russians as a threat
to his country, he had them ejected, and had many communist advisors arrested. Mao Tse-tung
fled, and hid out in the northern provinces, where he began training rebels for a future
insurrection.
In 1937, Japan attacked Shanghai, and coupled with the growing Communist insurgency,
created a two-front war. China needed help, and sent the following telegram to Roosevelt on
December 8, 1941: “To our new common battle, we offer all we are and all we have to stand
with you until the Pacific and the world are freed from the curse of brute force and endless
perfidy.” China’s plea was brushed off, and they were the last country to get military aid, which
came in the form of a $250 million loan in gold to stabilize their economy. Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury, Harry Dexter White, the Soviet spy, was in charge of making sure China got the
money, and over a period of 3 years, he only sent them $27 million. In 1945, Congress voted a
second loan of $500 million, and Dexter made sure they didn’t get any of that, which resulted in
the collapse of their economy.
After World War II, special envoys Gen. George C. Marshall (Army Chief of Staff, and CFR
member, who served as Secretary of State 1947-49, and Secretary of Defense 1950-51; who had
knowledge of the impending attack on Pearl Harbor, but didn’t inform the commanders in the
Pacific) and Patrick J. Hurley were sent to China to meet with Chiang Kai-shek. They urged him
to give the Communists representation in the Chinese Government, and for the Nationalists
(Kuomintang) to have a coalition government, since they felt that the Russians weren’t
influencing the Chinese Communists. However, Chiang would not accept any kind of
Communist influence in his government, so Marshall recommended that all American aid be
stopped, and an embargo enforced. There was no fuel for Chinese tanks and planes, or
ammunition for weapons. Russia gave the Chinese Communists military supplies they had
captured from Japan, and also diverted some of the American Lend-Lease material to them.
Soon, Mao began making his final preparations to take over the government.
High level State Department officials, such as Harry Dexter White and Owen Lattimore, who
were members of the Institute of Pacific Relations, besides planning the destruction of the
Chinese economy, also falsified documents to indicate that the Chinese Communists were
actually farmers who were pushing for agricultural reform. Thus, from 1943-49, magazines like
the Saturday Evening Post (who ran over 60 articles) and Colliers, advocated and promoted the
Communist movement. While Mao Tse-tung was made to appear as an “agrarian reformer,”