ABSTRACT
It could point to the colonial rulers and the capitalist sharks as representatives of the West, concerned only with power and profit. It had its spokesmen from the Russian bloc in the United Nations; It is certainly not true that the Chinese communists are "really not communist at all" as the naive and undiscriminating supporters of every Asiatic revolutionary movement in former years used to say. Millions of them, particularly those of mixed descent, are anything but communist-inclined; their whole outlook and living is based on individualistic, commercial capitalism. The Chinese civil war and its outcome have already had one effect: they have put a scare into the non-communist nationalists of Southeast Asia and maybe also into some of its communists. Until the beginning of 1948, when meetings between the communist leaders and agents took place in Calcutta, India, communist tactics aimed at an unostentatious infiltration into the nationalist movement in Indonesia and Malaya.
