Feb. 3 "I admit it seems we are not on speaking terms with China" (Mainland). Dart feels that because we do not approve of a government this is not a good basis for trying to maintain open channels of communication. Communist China holds Americans under arrest and is engaged in aggression but Russia has engaged in aggression yet we recognize her. Even if the people of the Chinese mainland are at the gunpoint of gangsters, the present government is the government of China whether we like it or not. Recognition doesn't mean approval. Perhaps the Chinese in Formosa are at gun point. Certainly the area is heavily militarized. Maybe Chang's government is not approved. Maybe the people wouldn't want to invade the mainland. Maybe these people are at gunpoint, yet we recognized the Chang gov't. Dart pointed out that when the Communists came down from the north they brought with them agrarian reform and they got much support from the people. Chang had been heavy on taxation and the little