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dated March 11, 1953: America must aid Red China, says Bevan

British Left Wing Labour Leader, Aneurin Bevan, on a visit to Burma, said in Rangoon that U.S. aid to Chiang-kai Shek's China had isolated People's China.

It would have been much better if America had gone to the aid of Communist China.

He observed: "Red China's present alliance with Russia is linking backwardness to backwardness. It will lead to a big disaster. If China wants to industrialise, where will it get materials from, from Russia which itself has insufficient resources? If China wants to develop, it must seek access to the Western world."

"But what she will actually do I do not know."

Speaking of the Churchill Government's moves to denationalise industries such as steel nationalised by the Labour Government, Mr. Bevan said: "The Tories cannot put their measures into operation because the vast majority of the electorate is opposed to it. The Churchill Government is in office, but not in power. Mr. Churchill wants the steel industry to be given back to private hands. The question is who will take it? He is now in the position of a postman taking letters to homes whose inmates will not accept them."

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