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8 L THE NEW YORK TIMES, FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1941 'ABC' TO FIGHT AXIS URGED BY DR. QUO America, Britain and China Must Pool Resources if War Is to Be Won, He Declares SEES SOUTH PACIFIC WAR Chungking Minister Calls His Country Our First Line of Defense in the Orient The United States, Great Britain and China must pool their economic and natural resources in a powerful, democratic combination if the threat of a totalitarian-controlled world is to be defeated, Dr. Quo Tai-chi, newly appointed Chinese Foreign Minister, declared here last night at a dinner in his honor at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Holding that the Chinese Republic requested this country's first line of defense in the Pacific, Dr. Quo called upon the United States and Britain to do everything possible to help China strengthen its defenses against Japanese aggression, particularly in the Southern Pacific region. "The destiny of America and Britain on both land and sea is inextricably bound up with China's ability to prevent the extension and consolidation of Japanese imperialism in the Pacific area," Dr. Quo asserted. Five hundred members of five societies interested in China heard Dr. Quo warn that "war threatens to spread along that long line stretching from Burma to Singapore." If war does break out in this region, Dr. Quo declared, China's southwestern provinces will become one of the main bases of operation by the democracies against the totalitarian powers. Voices Gratitude to Us Dr. Quo who is returning from London, where he was Ambassador, to assume his new post in the Chinese Nationalist Government, expressed his nation's gratitude for the friendly relations that have existed between China and the United States for many years and for the aid that the Chinese have been receiving from this country since the Japanese invasion. He declared that during the four-year struggle with Japan China had succeeded in holding its enemy at bay and had "bogged down a million of Japanese soldiers in China's endless fronts." "Indeed," he continued, "that newly developed hinterland of China's Southwest will be of pivotal importance if the Battle of Democracy is to be fought out in the Southern Pacific. It is as much to your interest and to Britain's interest as it is to ours that you and Britain do everything possible to help us strengthen the defenses of that important region. Asks "ABC" Cooperation In urging a general pooling of resources by the three democracies, Dr. Quo said: "it must be patent to all that the paramount problem before us today is the manner and method of cooperation between America, Britain, and China. This ABC combination should not only aim at the formation of a united spiritual front but also at a pooling of all out economic and natural resources. "That we stand or fall may depend upon our penetrating understanding of the real issues involved and above all upon our courage to act and to act quickly." Dr. Quo, accompanied by Dr. Hu Shih, Chinese Ambassador to the United States, arrived here yesterday afternoon by plane from Washington, where Dr. Quo conferred recently with President Roosevelt. Dr. Quo and Dr. Hu were guests at a reception given by the Chinese Consul General, Hsin Yu Su, at the Rainbow Room, Rockefeller Plaza, in the late afternoon. The societies sponsoring the dinner were the China Society of America, the American Council Institute of Pacific Relations, the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, the Shanghai Tiffin Club and the United China Relief. NEW YORK CHAIRMAN FOR CHINA RELIEF ASSUMES HIS POST [[image]] Raymond Rubicam being congratulated yesterday by Pearl S. Buck, member of the campaign committee. At the left is John D. Rockefeller 3d, committee member, and at the right James G. Blaine, national chairman. JAPANESE LAND TROOPS New Forces in South China to Cut Off War Supplies SHANGHAI, May 1 (UP)--New Japanese Army forces have been landed in South China as part of increasing Japanese efforts to halt the smuggling of military supplies to Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek's forces. Japanese military quarters said today. The announcement said the new landing had been made at Kiatze, east of Lufkung on the southeastern coast of Kwangtun Province. Dispatches from Chungking said a Chinese military spokesman there had predicted new drives by Japanese troops in Central China soon. The Chinese were reported preparing to meet any new Japanese offensive. HEADS CHINA RELIEF DRIVE Raymond Rubicam Appeals for $1,700,000 Quota in City Raymond Rubicam, president of the Young & Rubicam advertising agency, yesterday accepted the chairmanship of the United China Relief campaign to raise $1,700,000 in New York City as part of the national drive for $5,000,000. He explained that the organization represents seven Chinese relief agencies that heretofore have been conducting separate appeals. A statement from his headquarters at 1790 Broadway added: "I am confident that our quota will be raised once New Yorkers begin to realize the brave struggle that the Chinese people are making against tremendous odds, as well as the economic and social importance to Americans of the preservation of China's democratic way of life." The agencies that have united in the appeal are the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China, China Emergency Relief Committee, China Aid Council, American Committee for Chinese War Orphans, Church Committee for China Relief, American Committee for Chinese Industrial Cooperatives and Associated Boards for Christian Colleges in China. Directors of the national committee include James G. Blaine, national campaign chairman; Pearl S. Buck, William C. Bullitt, Paul G. Hoffman, Thomas W. Lamont, Henry R. Luce, John D. Rockefeller 3d, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Jr., David O. Selznick, President Robert G. Sproul of the University of California and Wendell L. Willkie.
