China Policy

Jim Milburn, leading for the negative, noted the conflict between the two vital phases of American ex[unclear: pansionism], altruism and idealism and the old isolationism, defeated by history, now manifesting itself in active power-seeking. The active presecution of the present American policy was a threat to world peace and a threat to the stability of the British Commonwealth. In China her refusal to arbitrate and her support given to the Nationalist Government, known to be the most corrupt government in Asia, were both due not to a good foreign policy but to the strong Kuomintang policy in America. The American action in Korea—and it was American and not U.N.—was merely a part of the China policy and not an altruistic attempt to safeguard democracy in Korea.

Henry Kiker, replying and continuing the constructive case for the affirmative, developed his argument on the line that the motive behind the American foreign policies is the security of world peace.