ABSTRACT
The peculiar balancing of incompatible procedures which American internal politics make necessary for the Truman administration will not appeal to Asiatic opinion, and disturbs the solidarity of the democratic Western alliance. Asiatic Communism is instructed to look to China and follow Mao; European and American Communism must be assumed to be taking the October Revolution as the model and Stalin as its prophet. Communism denies the view that great personalities sway the course of history. Consequently the appeal of the West falls on deaf ears; it appears to be nothing more than a plea for continued colonialism, an attempt to frighten the resurgent nationalists with a Communist bogy. To many who understand the validity of the argument based on the inadequate economic development of these countries, the rival claim of Communism or New Democracy is at least as attractive as the aid of the West.
