The Rotary Balita no. 794 (April 12, 1956)

A Fulbright professor who spent eight years is China in the thirties, on March 22, spoke before Manila Rotarians gathered at the Manila Hotel for their regular weekly luncheon meeting. George E. Taylor, director of Far Eastern and Slavic studies at the Washington University, told his audience that the communist regime on the Chinese mainland is based on the concept of war. "Under the system," he explained, "political control is almost absolute, and the ruling class is distressed with the idea of class conflict and struggle. Taylor told the Rotarians that Chinese communists today are living in a "psychopathic state of mental confusion," and that the Chinese peasant today has less land than what he owned in 1949. Speaking on U.S. policy towards China, Taylor said that this was and is being largely dictated by the presumption that she (Red China) is out for world power, which attitude can be stopped only by military means or sufficient opposition. Prof. George E. Taylor of the University of Washington before the Rotary Club of Manila. Dean C. Benitez, Club president, is behind.