THE CHINA LOBBY IN AMERICA

by Ross Y. Koen ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

It was at first in the U.S. News and World Report and later in The Reporter that the facts about the China Lobby became public. Here, along with the background of American Far Eastern policy, is a full scale report on the purposes and organization of the China Lobby, the identities of its supporters, the manner in which they conducted their operations and the effectiveness of the Americans whom they drew to their support. The China Lobby was formed in 1940 to promote the interests of Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang Party. It had two major goals: to secure increasing financial aid from the U.S. and later, to prevent U.S. recognition of Communist China and the loss of Chinese assets in this country to the new Chinese government. The author discusses the major issues which were exploited by the Lobby, the sources of pro-Chinese Nationalist propaganda in the U.S. and how the views of the Lobby came to be officially and generally accepted. It is not surprising that Chiang Kai-shek would have supporters. What is inexcusable, the author maintains, is the character of the ""Lobby""- its lack of objectivity, its willingness to suppress and distort evidence and the propensity to present accusation and innuendo as fact. As a result, he insists, the gulf between American attitudes and realities in China are virtually complete. It is apparent that the author has considerable researching abilities and the facts about the China Lobby are adequately demonstrated. Unfortunately, his prose style which is plodding, dull and unimaginative, proves to be a distraction -- surmountable only by one's interest in the subject.

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Publisher: Macmillan

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1959

Categories: NONFICTION