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Free China Prepared To Destroy Mao's Nuclear Installations By Conventional Means: Mme. Chiang
Publication Date:11/07/1965
By William Fang, Staff Writer
Free China is prepared to destroy the nuclear installations of the Peiping regime by conventional means, Madame Chiang declared in an Oct. 31 nationwide NBC television-radio program "Meet the Press" in the United States.
"Give us the tools, and we shall finish the work," she told her 10 million TV viewers (plus millions more radio listeners) from the NBC Washington studio.
The First Lady said Red Chinese nuclear weapons constitute a much greater danger than generally recognized. Although she did not foresee Peiping using atomic bombs in the near future, she warned:
"We have to remember there is no time limit" and "we are not dealing with rational beings (in Peiping)...
Asked whether Russia was also worried over the danger posed by Peiping's nuclear bomb, Madame Chiang replied: "The free world is in exactly the same boat as the Russians vis-a-vis Communist China's nuclear experiments" and the Kremlin "would have the same interest in averting the danger of a preemptive strike by the Chinese Reds, because the Chinese Reds have the nuclear device and it is a dirty device and that is why it is all the more dangerous for the rest of the world."
Therefore, the First Lady concluded: "The Russians would shed no tears if anybody destroyed the Chinese Reds' nuclear installations, not even crocodile tears."
'Disunited Nations'?
Answering further questions by a panel of journalists, Madame Chiang said Chinese compatriots on the mainland "are crying out to us more and more." Acknowledging that Red China has many more troops, she pointed out that "those troops are not hardcore, hardnosed Communists." She cited the historic case of the Korean War in which 80 per cent of the POWs from the Chinese mainland chose freedom.
"So, the number of troops, instead of being an asset to the Red Chinese, will be a detriment," she explained.
As free China's struggle is so closely linked with the Vietnam war, the Chinese First Lady was asked to assess the possibility of the Peiping intervening. Her answer was an emphatic "No." But she quickly added that as soon as Washington fails to show firmness, Peiping will take steps.
On Peiping and the UN membership, she said if Peiping were admitted, then, instead of a United Nations, the world body would become a "Disunited Nations."
'Give Us The Tools'
Madame Chiang's television interview drew enthusiastic response from the New York Daily News on Nov. 2.
The widely-circulated tabloid ran an editorial under the title "An Offer from Taiwan".
"Appearing on the TV program 'Meet the Press' Sunday, Madame Chiang Kai-shek made a most appetizing offer to the United States.
"Madame Chiang, as the wife of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, is the First Lady of China, and we can safely assume this offer was sanctioned by President Chiang himself.
"The offer was to supply qualified Chinese pilots from Taiwan to fly U.S.-furnished bombers with ample conventional bombs to take out the Peiping regime's nuclear arms facilities. 'Give us the tools,' Mme. Chiang paraphrased the late Sir Winston Churchill, 'and we will do the work'." |