A New China

"In the lane leading to the East gate of Yenching University posters appeared: 'Long live the Communist Party!" 'Celebrate the liberation of Tientsin! "Push to Nanking and capture Chiang Kai Shek alive!' In the same lane. Tsing Hua University students were painting big white characters on the wall: "Salute the People's Liberation Armies." It seems that the country round has turned red overnight. A few days later, and now one hears music drums and gongs that accompany the popular Communist songs, and if one is unprejudiced, it is impossible to feel unstirred. One sees dramatic performances that depict the life of the poor in a realistic way It seems as though history were telling its own story that China is going over to Communism.

"The Kuomintang was a short time ago the reigning power invincible with its experienced armies, and in control of almost the whole of China. Its leader Chiang Kai Shek was the idol of the nation. But within the short space of three years, the party finds it necessary to take a flight to Canton while its leader is named the first war criminal by the Communists. His achievements have been forgotten not because the people are short of memory, but because these achievements have been overshadowed by his dictatorship and dogged determination to exterminate the Communists instead of following the people's will to peace, and effecting a moral reformation of his corrupt party. Almost everything the Kuomintang did alienated the people, the liberal-minded and the students who were treated shamefully. Imagination fails to function at the thought that several thousand youngsters were thrown into prlspns, often under secret torture, without a decent trial. Every time a black list was published, those whose names appeared on it went over to the liberated areas, The current knowledge that the biggest sum deposited in an American bank belongs to a Chinese, is enough to explain the rapid success of the Communists in China.

"Chinese history has repeatedly taught the lesson that a dynasty falls when it loses the support of the people. The Chinese race could be exploited indeed, but exploitation has a limit beyond which it cannot go. While the KMT have blindly disregarded the lessons of history, the Communists have been willing to learn, thus winning the people and easily leading them to victories over feudalism.

The immovable begins to move, and as momentum is gained, no human power can arrest the motion of the mass strongly forged into solidarity for revolution.